Aspirants preparing for the Civil Services examinations have demanded that the Union Public Service Commission reveal marks attained by applicants who appeared for the Preliminary examination in 2010 in line with the Supreme Court order of December 3 in response to a special leave petition filed by aggrieved candidates.
A total student driven initiative, the ias aspirants have shown determination in shaking the shackles of the very structure they want to enter. The candidates had earlier organised a 52-day protest at Jantar Mantar here demanding that the UPSC publish the marks attained in the preliminary exam, alleging that over 4,000 deserving candidates were denied a chance to take the Main test.
They said a human or technical error ended up restricting the number of candidates who qualified to just 12,394 despite there being 965 notified vacancies. In contrast in 2009, they said, 12,800 students qualified though there were just 585 vacancies.
The Supreme Court in its order had directed the UPSC to follow the order by a Single Judge of the Delhi High Court in 2006 which was later affirmed by a Division Bench of the High Court in 2008.
The Supreme Court order will require the UPSC to disclose within two weeks the marks assigned to all aspirants in the preliminary examination. The Supreme Court has once again came to the resuce of the students in ordering the UPSC to disclose the marks.
The UPSC has been for years following a closed model without letting known anything regarding the marking, normalization and other details related with the Preliminary and Mains Civil Services Examination. Even after the coming into force of the Right to Information Act, the UPSC managed to stay tough with the students, with the Supreme Court and with the nation’s aspirations as a whole. They might have their own true reasons for this stand, though at the cost of transparency creating doubts in the purest of the minds of the students.
No examination, in the name of trying to be ‘protecting’ the students can be secretive. It is time to come out in to the light and detail how the marking as well as screening of the qualified students is being made for the Mains examination. This will rise the confidence in the aspirants as well as the rest of the ‘watching’ nation.
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