Authorities in eastern India have been left embarrassed after images of people scaling the walls of a school exam centre to pass notes to relatives were broadcast on national television . The images show dozens of people clinging to the windows of the four-storey building in the eastern state of Bihar , where more than 1.4million teenagers are sitting their leaving exams . Other images showed police officers and school staff doing nothing and simply standing by as people passed study aides to candidates inside examination centres . Scroll down for video . Relatives of those sitting exams inside a school scale the walls of the building in order to pass the students notes during their test . Cheating during school examinations in Bihar is widespread but local authorities have been left red-faced after the footage went viral . Many in India were left shocked after seeing the brazen cheating methods . Here a person is pictured handing a relative notes through a window . The students sitting the tests face tremendous pressure because they must pass the exams to continue their education . The images went viral on Twitter and made national headlines , but Bihar 's education minister P. K. Shahi refused to accept any blame for the cheating . He said : 'You tell us what can the government do to stop cheating if parents and relatives are not ready to cooperate ? Should the government give orders to shoot them ? ' Attempts to stop mass copying have often triggered violent protests . Students are sitting the Class 10 board examination amid widespread reports of mass copying and cheating across 1,200 schools . State authorities posted police at all schools where examinations were being held , 'but we ca n't use force to drive away the parents , ' Mr Shahi said . He admitted to the media that holding 'free and fair exams ' was a big challenge for the Bihar government and the situation was so bad that at least four to five people helped every student to cheat . In the last three days , more than 600 students caught cheating in the board examination have been expelled , while officials said over 1,000 students were caught cheating in examination in three subjects , including Mathematics and English . A woman sitting one of her school leaving exams checks notes on her lap which were passed to her inside the classroom . Another student refers to notes sitting on her lap as she sits the exam . The Class 10 board examination is a high pressure test as it determines if students are able to continue their studies . Lalkeshwar Prasad , chairman of the Bihar School Examination Board ( BSEB ) , which is conducting the examination said : 'The students were expelled on charges of adopting unfair means . ' It is not the first time that exam cheating has been exposed in Bihar - more than 1,600 students were disqualified in 2013 after similar videos emerged . Police also detained more than 100 adults for helping students cheat . Sriniwas Tiwari , secretary of the Bihar School Examination Board , said students caught cheating could be barred from taking the exam for up to three years , ordered to pay a fine or even sent to jail .
Remarkable Indian television footage shows dozens of people scaling walls to pass notes to students sitting exams . The students, who are mostly from poor families, were given the money by a man in his 50s and 60s called Mr Singh - he is believed to be an illegal immigrant working as a labourer for a The images was taken in the eastern state of Bihar where more than 1.4m students are sitting school leaving tests . Local authorities have admitted cheating is a major challenge for the region and they are powerless to prevent it .