UPSC: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is looking for Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) to deploy advanced digital biometric technologies to improve security during its exams. This endeavour follows an incident involving Puja Khedkar, a trainee IAS official who reportedly altered her details to exceed the number of exam tries allowed.

What likely to be changed in UPSC examination?

UPS conducts 14 major examinations, as well as a number of recruitment tests and interviews, for induction into Group A and Group B posts in the central government each year. After the exploitation of rules and security UPSC intends to implement cutting-edge technologies, such as:

• Fingerprint authentication by Aadhaar or digital capture and facial recognition for candidates.
• QR code scanning for e-admission cards
• Live AI-powered CCTV surveillance during examinations

These procedures attempt to keep UPSC exams free, fair, and impartial. The tender, which was released on July 18, does not specify whether these technologies will be employed in the future.

The infamous IAS officer "fraudulently availed efforts over the authorised limit under the Examination Rules by falsifying her identity by way of changing her residence, email address, mobile number, and father's and mother's names, as well as her photograph and signature," according to a statement released by UPSC.

What is the Puja Khedkar UPSC controversy?

Puja Khedkar's status has deteriorated as a result of claims that she presented forged handicap and caste certificates in order to get appointed as an IAS official. This has resulted in more charges against her and her family.

Khedkar attracted attention earlier this month after being transferred from Pune to Washim district following reports about her improper behaviour during her probation. These allegations included driving in a private vehicle equipped with a beacon light. She also wanted her own office, an official car, and staff, which are not generally provided to trainee officers.

Puja Khedkar Case: An Order of Events

• 2019- Puja Khedkar obtained a certificate from the Ahmednagar District Hospital indicating her visual impairment.
• 2021- She received a combination certificate from Ahmednagar District Hospital attesting to her mental condition and vision impairment.
• 2022- She applied for locomotor disability at Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital in Pimpri to demonstrate her incapacity to attempt UPSC. Citing an earlier ACL rupture, the hospital provided a document indicating a 7% locomotor handicap in her left knee.
• When Khedkar applied for the certificate, he presented a fictitious ration card and claimed to be a Pimpri-Chinchwad resident. Moreover, she provided the incorrect address, Plot No. 53, Dehu-Alandi, Talwade.
• It was later discovered, meanwhile, that this address did not belong to a residential building but rather to Thermoverita Engineering Private Limited. Due to a Rs. 2 lakh overdue tax, the municipal administration has now sealed the property.
• In the Aundh Civil Hospital, a concurrent claim for locomotor disability was submitted. On October 11, 2022, the online application to Aundh's civil hospital was automatically refused since the disability certificate was granted by YCM Hospital.

Using the Yashwantrao Chavan Hospital certificate as support, she sought for benefits under the "person with baseline disability" category and passed the civil services examination.

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