After the negotiations between the forest department recruitment candidates and the government of Gujarat fell through, the candidates today gathered at the Ram Katha Maidan in Gandhinagar to protest against the CBRT (Computer Based Response Test) method for recruitment.

According to the sources, the protest took place after the candidates’ meeting with a top official of the government.

No permission to protest was granted by Gandhinagar police.

The candidates were not happy with the results that were announced recently. They cited issues with the language of the test, technical glitches, variations in difficulty levels and the method used to process scores as flaws in the system.

They said that the CBRT contains a high number of language errors. “It seems like no one at the private agency hired to programme the test, which is in Gujarati, knows Gujarati. So they use computer applications to translate the questions and don’t cross check them,” one aspirant said, adding, “Meaning often gets lost in translation.”

Following that, Gandhinagar North MLA Ritaben Patel and Sanjaysinh Mahida of Mahudha had submitted a written submission to the government to scrap the CBRT method from the forest department recruitment and increase the number of posts.

Top officials, including crime branch inspectors, sector 7 police inspectors, deputy superintendent of police of Gandhinagar, and a police staff of around 50 were present at the Ram Katha maidan to tackle the agitation.

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