Change mind sympathetically consider extra attempt for civil services aspirants Par panel to govt
New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Mentioning the hardships faced by student community during the first and second COVID-19 wave a parliamentary committee on Thursday asked the government to change its mind and sympathetically consider the demand of civil services examination aspirants and grant an extra attempt with corresponding age relaxation to themThe committee is of the opinion that COVID-19 has caused untold agony and insurmountable sufferings to many the panel said in its report tabled in the parliamentThe whole of India had come to a standstill lives and livelihoods got disrupted and the student community was also adversely affected it saidKeeping in view the hardships faced by the student community during the first and second COVID-19 waves the committee recommends the government to change its mind and sympathetically consider the demand of civil services examination CSE aspirants and grant an extra attempt with corresponding age relaxation to all candidates the report saidAsked if the Union Public Service Commission is considering giving an extra attempt and benefit of age relaxation for all candidates in view of the havoc wreaked by the first and second COVID-19 waves the commission replied that the issue of granting age relaxation and extra attempt to the candidates due to the pandemic had been brought before the Supreme Court of India vide writ petitions filed by the aspirantsBased on the judgements passed by the apex court the matter has been considered and it has not been found feasible to change the existing provisions regarding number of attempts and age-limit in respect of the civil services examination the report had said quoting the reply of the commissionIn view of above no such proposal is under consideration in this department said the report of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel Public Grievances Law and Justice on Demands for Grants 2022-23 of the Department of Personnel and TrainingThe panel headed by BJPs Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi asked the government to appoint an expert group or committee to assess the impact of changes made in the scheme pattern and syllabus of civil services examination in the last 10 years on the quality of recruitment and administration at largeThe expert group so constituted may assess if the present scheme of recruitment provides an equal opportunity to both English-medium educated urban candidates and non-English medium educated rural candidates it saidThe expert group may also assess if the existing pattern of preliminary and mains examination has created a level playing field for all candidates irrespective of their academic background the report saidThe civil services examination is conducted annually in three stages — preliminary main and interview — to select officers of Indian Administrative Service IAS Indian Foreign Service IFS and Indian Police Service IPS among othersThe committee in its report said changing the number of vacancies at different stages of civil services examination is not a healthy practiceThe committee recommends UPSC to ensure that vacancies declared at the time of announcement of result of preliminary examination should remain constant throughout the recruitment cycle it saidThe committee notes from the data made available to it that during 2010 2011 2012 2013 and 2019 civil services recruitment the number of vacancies notified at the stage of preliminary examination were different from those notified at main and final stagesFor instance in 2010 965 vacancies had been declared at the time of notification 1014 vacancies at time of declaration of preliminary result 1064 vacancies at the time of declaration of main result and 1043 in the final result the report saidThe committee feels that if 1043 vacancies had been declared at the time of announcement of preliminary result itself more candidates would have got an opportunity to appear in mains examination and consequently the final result would have been different it saidPTI AKV SRY
New Delhi Mar 24 PTI Mentioning the hardships faced by student community during the first and second COVID-19 wave a parliamentary committee on Thursday asked the government to change its mind and sympathetically consider the demand of civil services examination aspirants and grant an extra attempt with corresponding age relaxation to themThe committee is of the opinion that COVID-19 has caused untold agony and insurmountable sufferings to many the panel said in its report tabled in the parliamentThe whole of India had come to a standstill lives and livelihoods got disrupted and the student community was also adversely affected it saidKeeping in view the hardships faced by the student community during the first and second COVID-19 waves the committee recommends the government to change its mind and sympathetically consider the demand of civil services examination CSE aspirants and grant an extra attempt with corresponding age relaxation to all candidates the report saidAsked if the Union Public Service Commission is considering giving an extra attempt and benefit of age relaxation for all candidates in view of the havoc wreaked by the first and second COVID-19 waves the commission replied that the issue of granting age relaxation and extra attempt to the candidates due to the pandemic had been brought before the Supreme Court of India vide writ petitions filed by the aspirantsBased on the judgements passed by the apex court the matter has been considered and it has not been found feasible to change the existing provisions regarding number of attempts and age-limit in respect of the civil services examination the report had said quoting the reply of the commissionIn view of above no such proposal is under consideration in this department said the report of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel Public Grievances Law and Justice on Demands for Grants 2022-23 of the Department of Personnel and TrainingThe panel headed by BJPs Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi asked the government to appoint an expert group or committee to assess the impact of changes made in the scheme pattern and syllabus of civil services examination in the last 10 years on the quality of recruitment and administration at largeThe expert group so constituted may assess if the present scheme of recruitment provides an equal opportunity to both English-medium educated urban candidates and non-English medium educated rural candidates it saidThe expert group may also assess if the existing pattern of preliminary and mains examination has created a level playing field for all candidates irrespective of their academic background the report saidThe civil services examination is conducted annually in three stages — preliminary main and interview — to select officers of Indian Administrative Service IAS Indian Foreign Service IFS and Indian Police Service IPS among othersThe committee in its report said changing the number of vacancies at different stages of civil services examination is not a healthy practiceThe committee recommends UPSC to ensure that vacancies declared at the time of announcement of result of preliminary examination should remain constant throughout the recruitment cycle it saidThe committee notes from the data made available to it that during 2010 2011 2012 2013 and 2019 civil services recruitment the number of vacancies notified at the stage of preliminary examination were different from those notified at main and final stagesFor instance in 2010 965 vacancies had been declared at the time of notification 1014 vacancies at time of declaration of preliminary result 1064 vacancies at the time of declaration of main result and 1043 in the final result the report saidThe committee feels that if 1043 vacancies had been declared at the time of announcement of preliminary result itself more candidates would have got an opportunity to appear in mains examination and consequently the final result would have been different it saidPTI AKV SRY
