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The examinees wandered in search of accommodation
Candidates from various states and districts have started appearing for the BPSC Teacher Recruitment Exam. The number of examinees also started gathering from Wednesday morning itself. Some examinees reached on Tuesday itself. In the district, the exam will be held in two shifts, Thursday and Friday. The examinees who arrived on Tuesday found rooms in city hotels easily, but there was a shortage of rooms in the hotels after the gathering of examinees on Wednesday. The examinees who came after Wednesday afternoon had to struggle to find the rooms. The examinees were seen wandering from one hotel to another in search of a hotel room. Many hotel managers have put up signs that rooms are full from noon. Due to the crowd of examinees, there is a happy atmosphere among the hotel managers. The room which on normal days is Rs. 1,200 which was available at Rs. 2,000 or more are booked. The hotel management has kept five students in one room and charged them arbitrary rent. On non-availability of rooms in hotels, examinees turned to nursing homes. Many examinees have compulsorily taken rooms in nursing homes.
Pushpendra Yadav, who hails from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, said that he reached Darbhanga by train at 12 noon on Wednesday. Since then he started looking for a hotel. Hotel rooms were found empty in some places, but very expensive. According to the facility, the rent of that room should have been one thousand rupees, but two thousand was being demanded. Jeetendra Kumar from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh was in a similar situation. He also started looking for a hotel room from afternoon. Unable to find a cheap room, he along with four students took a room for three thousand rupees. Raja Babu Jha and Sachin Jha from Samastipur said that they are not getting any vacancy. Despite being from a neighboring district, he had reached Darbhanga a day earlier in view of bad weather. By Wednesday evening, they were busy looking for vacant rooms in hotels.