This ensures that no exemption for UPSC-2021 should given to those candidates who have exhaust their potential efforts.
The Supreme Court said-
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that any relief in 2021 for UPSC candidates for extra effort in civil service examinations, despite being age-barre, will have a wide impact on various competitive examinations where a large number of candidates during the covid-19 epidemic Appeared
A three-judge bench head by Justice AM Khanwilkar rejected a petition by a group of petitioners led Rachana for additional effort for UPSC Civil Services Prelims 2021 for additional shot in the examination conducte for selection. Said “lame excuse”. For prestigious IAS, IPS and IFS.
Petitioners claim-
The petitioners claimed that some of them could not perform to their maximum level due to disruptions caused by the epidemic.
The court said –
That everyone must have faced some hurdles, obstacles or inconvenience in various examinations held in the year 2020.
The bench said that under the guise of the Kovid-19 pandemic is nothing but a lame excuse to make extra efforts to attend the Civil Services Examination 2021, “the bench also comprises Justices Indu Malhotra and Ajay Rastogi.
UPSC Examination Details –
Currently, general category candidates get six attempts till the age of 32, OBC candidates nine till 35 and SC / ST candidates up to the age of 37 to get unlimited attempts to appear in the Civil Services examinations.
UPSC had already given the candidates extra time by postponing the preliminary examination from 31 May to 4 October 2020.
The apex court said that in policy decisions. The use of plenary powers was stop under Article 142 of the Constitution.
It also pointed to the 2020 Rules for Competitive Examination published by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions (Department of Personnel and Training), which provides no discretion to the government to grant any relaxation in the effort or age of candidates.
Although the central government agreed to provide an additional opportunity for those. Who were not age-barre and appear as final attempts in the 2020 examination. The court said that any relaxation or attempt at age is discriminatory to other candidates Will happen.
The petitioners had earlier given a similar concession given by the government in 2015. The court, however, said- that this was done due to changes in examination pattern and syllabus.
The court said that no demand can made from the central government. Which exempts participants who have participated in the last and last attempt or has crossed the upper age. Come out with the policy, as in the right of Is the case, ”the court said.
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