Group-III papers, now plates?
Photos doing the rounds claim Group-III question papers turned up as snack plates. The exam happened; the plates story rests on one report so far.
The source and chain of custody of the sheets remain unverified.
Photos shared on social media this week claim paper plates at a bakery in Rajanna Siricilla were made from Telangana Group-III question papers, with another set said to be spotted at a tea stall in Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad. The claim appears in a single published report that cites the photographs; no police complaint, TGPSC note, or district statement is on record yet to say where the sheets came from or how they got there.
What is on the record: the Telangana Public Service Commission ran the Group-III written exam on 17–18 November 2024, in three sessions across 1,401 centres in all 33 districts. The original notification for this recruitment listed 1,365 posts; a Commission addendum in May 2024 revised the break-up to 1,388. The state government later said appointment letters were handed to 1,370 selected candidates in January 2026.
What the plate photos do not answer: whether those sheets were original exam stock, overruns, or something else; who printed and handled them post-exam; and whether any disposal protocol was breached. The report does not name the bakery, the posters of the images, or an official who has examined the material. Until the Commission or the district verifies the chain of custody, this stays a photographed allegation, not a proven system failure.
For the students who actually wrote the exam and waited through verification, the only thing worse than rumours is silence. If the papers were repurposed, say how and by whom. If they weren’t, say so and show the trail. Telangana’s candidates did their part in November; the institutions can manage an audit without waiting for Delhi to notice.