Key Points
President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday gave her assent to Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means), Bill, 2024, which aims to check cheating in government recruitment exams...
It seeks to prevent the use of "unfair means" in public examinations and bring "greater transparency, fairness and credibility"...
The Bill, which has become an Act now with the President's nod, defines several offences in relation to public examinations...
The public examinations in the Act refer to examinations conducted by authorities notified by the central government which include Union Public Service Commission, Staff Selection Commission, Railway Recruitment Board, National Testing Agency, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection, and Departments of the central government and their attached offices for recruitment...
An organised crime is defined as an unlawful act committed by a person or a group of persons to further a shared interest for wrongful gain in relation to public examinations..
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