Far-off PET centres force UP aspirants to sleep on station floors

Candidates taking Uttar Pradesh's Preliminary Eligibility Test, conducted by UPSSSC for Group C government jobs, say they were assigned centres 300 to 500 km from home. Many travelled on overcrowded trains and slept on railway station floors, facing exhaustion, extra costs and stress. Aspirants contrasted this with polling booths, which the government sets up close to voters' homes.