pune the group d examination for recruitment in state health department held in two sessions on sunday at the abeda inamdar college saw several angry candidates who claimed they did not get the question paper in time and blamed the staff incharge of conducting the exam the candidates said that they had reached the centre one hour before the exam yet the college staff appointed to conduct the exam disallowed them while many candidates were attempting the exam on schedule at 10 am groups of a few candidates about 1520 claimed they were not allowed inside the exam hallwhen contacted president of the maharashtra cosmopolitan education society that runs the college p a inamdar said that the exam was being conducted by the state government and their contracted agency while the college had only appointed its staff for supervision so it had no role to play in the claims made by the candidates inamdar also said that the college authorities and the government officials would discuss and resolve the issue at the earliesthealth minister rajesh tope attributed the delay to technical issues and said that the candidates were given extra time to complete their paper the exam was held in two sessions and the second session was scheduled at 3pmthe digital lock on the question paper box failed to open which led to the delay in distribution of question papers to the candidates however the candidates were given extra time to complete their exam for the time lost in the initial period he addedthe students who were not allowed at 10am were later permitted to sit for the exam after a 90minute delay a candidate who had come from ausa taluka in latur district said i came the previous night to pune and spent the night on the railway platform i came here at 9am for the exam that was scheduled an hour later but to my shock the exam authorities did not have enough question papers we are very poor and have no money in hand and we cannot afford to lose this trip without giving the examination