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Paper shortage delay ITI exam by 5 hours

Most students had reached the exam hall before 9 am for the exam. Until 11.30 pm there was no word from the authorities about what the issue was and we were all very clueless, said a student on the condition of anonymity

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Hundreds of Industrial Training Institute (ITI) students who had appeared for their apprenticeship examination at a centre in Dadar on Tuesday had to wait for over two hours to get their papers due to a major technical glitch. 

Students who were set to appear for their apprenticeship exam conducted by the National Council on Vocational Training(NCVT), a government body through at the Shardashram Junior College centre at Dadar were left in lurch as the exam, which was scheduled t 9.30 am on Tuesday did not start until 11.30pm due to shortage of question papers.

“Most students had reached the exam hall before 9 am for the exam. Until 11.30 pm there was no word from the authorities about what the issue was and we were all very clueless,” said a student on the condition of anonymity. 

Rameshwar Shere, President, Student Federation of India (SFI) Mumbai who has recently written to the DVET about the issue said “Hundreds of students are left in a lurch as colleges did not get enough papers. How can the DVET be so lax about such a major exam?” asked Shere. 

Yogesh Patil, Deputy Director DVET attributed the issue to a technical glitch NCVT as a result of which fewer papers were sent. “There was a shortage of papers from the side of NCVT which sends the papers from Delhi. We arranged papers in colleges where there was a shortage and the delay was only by about half an hour,” said Patil.

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