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The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) said connected Friday that each candidates appearing successful the examinations conducted by the Commission “will acquisition look authentication astatine the venue”.
The update was posted connected UPSC’s website connected Friday.
After aviator project
Earlier successful September 2025, the Commission conducted a aviator programme to trial AI-enabled facial authentication exertion for swift and unafraid campaigner verification during 2 examinations.
The aviator was conducted with the assistance of National e-Governance Division (NeGD).
UPSC said the inaugural seeks to fortify the integrity of the introspection process and heighten the easiness of introduction for candidates astatine introspection centres.
The aviator was carried retired astatine prime centres successful Gurugram, Haryana wherever the facial images of candidates were digitally matched with the photographs submitted successful their registration forms. The caller strategy reduced verification clip to an mean of conscionable 8–10 seconds per candidate, importantly streamlining the introduction process portion adding an other furniture of security.
The caller update means that aspirants during aboriginal examinations volition person to acquisition look authentication astatine the exam centres.
On July 10, 2025, UPSC published a caller tender seeking bids from nationalist assemblage undertakings (PSU) “to lucifer and cross-check the biometric details of the candidates to forestall cheating, fraud, unfair means and impersonation”.
The papers said the Commission desires to incorporated Aadhaar-based fingerprint authentication (or other integer fingerprint capturing) and facial designation of candidates, scanning of QR codification of e-admit cards.
It said that UPSC conducts 14 large examinations and a fig of recruitment tests and interviews successful astir 3,000 venues crossed 180 centres with a candidature ranging up to 12 lakhs.
Questions implicit integrity
Over the past two-years, the 100-year-old instauration introduced respective changes to fortify the introspection strategy which came nether a unreality amid the NEET introspection enactment and IAS probationer Puja Khedkar’s case.
Ms. Khedkar allegedly forged individuality documents and a idiosyncratic with benchmark disablement (PwBD) certificate to unafraid introduction into the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), though work allocation is decided by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
UPSC has registered a transgression lawsuit against Ms. Khedkar for “misrepresenting and falsifying facts to get other attempts successful CSE-2022, beyond the prescribed limit”.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) was dragged to the Supreme Court aft respective lapses were reported successful the behaviour of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) 2024.
For the civilian services introspection successful 2024, the rules were amended and the online submission of educational, caste and carnal disablement certificates was made mandatory astatine the signifier of preliminary examinations, dissimilar earlier erstwhile documents were to beryllium scanned and uploaded erstwhile a campaigner qualified for the Mains examination.
