New Delhi: Common Admission Test (CAT) for the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management were once again hit by technical snags for the fourth day on Tuesday.
There was problem at two labs at the Sahara Academy and School of Management in Lucknow, two labs in Bhopal and two labs in Bangalore affecting many students.
Reacting to the CAT mess Union Human Resource Minister Kapil Sibal said that the IIMs are an autonomous body and the government can do little.
But he also said that CAT organisers should have been more careful.
"Out of the 45,000 students around 8,000 have been affected. They (CAT organisers) should have been more careful. The report which I got says virus affected it. We (Government) are not directly involved in it. Autonomy of the IIMs allows them to do most of these things. IIMs will decide when exams will be held again but this should not have happened. As the Government we are very concerned," said Sibal.
Meanwhile, the issue of glitches affecting hundreds of students taking the CAT echoed in Lok Sabha too.
BJP Deputy Leader Sushma Swaraj raised the issue during Zero Hour and pointed out that the mess has affected India's image as an information technology power.
Swaraj said that of the 49 centres where students undertook the test, eight centres in Bhopal and 11 in Bangalore were affected on November 28.
"Mouse has eaten the CAT," she said.
IIM-A had on Monday claimed to have identified the viruses causing the slowdown as 'Conflicer' and 'W32 Nimda' and to have made all efforts to quarantine the systems.
More than 8,000 management aspirants have already been affected over the first three days of the exams after the online exam failure.
The IIMs decided to hold the CAT on 10 different days with the exam going online.
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