The Combined Technical Association of Nagaland (CTAN) has written to the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) Chairman demanding re-examination of NPSC-Combined Technical Services Examination Civil Engineering (Diploma) 2023 (NPSC-CTSE) conducted on 7 June 2023 citing repetition and copy of questions from civil engineering (degree) question papers held on 6 June 2023.

“In view of the recently concluded CTSE civil engineering diploma paper 1 and paper 2 conducted on 07/06/23, it has been found that 84 questions from paper 1 and 73 questions from paper 2 has been repeated/copied from civil engineering (degree) question papers which was conducted on 06/06/23, stated a letter addressed to the NPSC Chairman which was appended by CTAN Convener and others.

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While asking the Chairman to look into the matter and re-conduct “examinations at the earliest,” it further demanded “for normalisation of marks/re-examination of civil engineering (degree) 2023 papers where 22 questions in paper 1 and 54 in paper 2 were a copy from CESE 2022.”

It urged the commission to be more responsible adding that “the trend of copy pasting from the previous year question paper/single objective books is nothing new and this is not only observed in engineering branches but in all branches under NPSC-CTSE.”