Thiruvananthapuram: Casting a shadow on the exams conducted by Public Service Commission (PSC), the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) has started a probe on the alleged illegal nexus between prominent coaching centres and officials in Kerala Government Secretariat.
As part of the probe, the Vigilance department carried out raids at prominent coaching centres here on Sunday.
This comes after complaints were filed by a section of job aspirants, who appeared for the PSC exams alleging that those running coaching centres have nexus with government officials, who are associated with preparing PSC question papers.
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Vigilance is also inspecting whether or not any government officials are running these coaching centres. Besides, a certain Whatsapp group created by the coaching centre shared probable questions for the prelims of KAS examinations. The vigilance will also probe the source of these questions and any alleged links to civil servants working in the state secretariat.
After the allegations, the General Administration Department (GAD) secretary based on an official correspondence by PSC secretary had requested for a probe.
According to reports, PSC secretary has forwarded the complaints to GAD based on which an enquiry has been ordered.
Kerala PSC conducts examinations for recruitment to state services and these examinations are written by scores of government job aspirants. KAS examinations were held on Saturday.
(With inputs from ANI)
