The long wait for Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) Mains results is unlikely to end anytime soon for the 34,000 odd aspirants. The evaluation process for the examination conducted on January 29 is yet to begin, JPSC officials said on Tuesday, adding that the commission has approached 62 universities to get teachers for the evaluation.

“The number of answer sheets is very high this time. We are looking for evaluators and have contacted 62 universities for the same. The evaluation will begin under CCTV surveillance in the month of June,” said Ranendra Kumar, Secretary, JPSC.

The prelims test for6th Combined Civil Services conducted by JPSC was held way back on December 18, 2016 and its result was declared in February 2017. Initially, the commission declared 5,400 candidates successful. However, months later it revised the results and declared 6,100 candidates successful. The mains test, supposed to be conducted on January 29, 2018, had to be postponed by a year after some candidates approached the Jharkhand High Court with a plea citing incompliance of the reservation roaster in the prelims test.

Taking cognizance of the plea, the State government constituted a committee headed by state revenue and land reforms minister Amar Bauri to look into the matter. In August last year the JPSC again issued fresh results declaring 34,634 candidates eligible for the Mains examination.

The number of candidates, who cleared the Prelims was about 106 times the available 326 vacancies and that became the bone of contention. Aspirants alleged that as per rules, the number of successful candidates in Prelims should not exceed 15 times the total number of available vacancies.

On the day the Mains exams started, a court of chief justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Anubha Rawat Choudhary ordered that the results of JPSC Mains should not be declared without the court’s permission. On May 13, the JPSC told the court that the evaluation process is yet to begin. The next date for hearing on this case is June 17.

The Mains exam for JPSC too witnessed its share of protests, with about 100 aspirants refusing to appear in the test as a mark of protest against anomalies in JPSC’s evaluation process. These students took to the streets against the JPSC and demanded action against the ones responsible for the anomalies.