Indian Railways will be holding preliminary written test examination from 9-Aug till 31-Aug for positions of Assistant Loco Pilot and Technical Assistant. Examination will be held in 3 phases from 10 am till 5 pm.

4.5 Lakh will be appearing for the examination. Given the recent randomness of administration in shutting down internet of the entire city during an examination, will the administration now shut down internet for a month? This thought might be sounding outrageous – how can I even propose that administration may shut down internet for a month? But to me, even the thought of administration shutting down internet for a day is outrageous!!

Like recent cases where internet of entire city was shut down due to Government examinations, mobile phones and other electronic gadgets are not allowed in these examinations. But as our administration would tell you, that is not enough – people can still cheat. So why not shut down internet in the entire city for the next one month!!

If the administration does not shutdown internet for whole of August, they might end up putting our lives at risk. This is because if internet is not shut, then as administration would say, they have no mechanism of controlling cheating. Hence, the loco pilots who would drive trains would have cheated their way into the system and hence would be incapable.

Till our administration takes a preliminary course on localised mobile phone signal jammers, we should brace up for a few more internet shutdowns.