To ensure fair and peaceful conduct of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)’s Civil Services (Preliminary) examination scheduled on June 18, Dehradun district magistrate SA Murugeshan met the district officers on Wednesday and gave them necessary instructions. Murugeshan informed that the preliminary examination would be conducted at 42 examination centres in two periods- from 9.30 am to 11.30 am and 2.30 pm and 4.30 pm. City magistrate CS Martolia and sub-divisional magistrate Pratyush Singh have been appointed as two supervising officers at the district level. Apart from this, five flying squads and eight magistrates have been appointed, DM informed, adding that the officers concerned would receive the sealed packets of the examination materials from the treasury to be handed over to the examination centre officers.
The officers concerned have been asked to be present at the examination centres during the examination and inform the DM and the additional DM Veer Singh Budiyal about any disturbance in the conduct of the examination. The appointed magistrates have been asked to submit reports of all the arrangements at examination centre by June 17 evening.
SP City Pradeep Kumar Rai has been directed to deploy armed police forces at the treasury. All the eight magistrates appointed for the examination would be given eight police personnel as a part of their security. DM also directed SP city to deploy three police personnel and two women police personnel at each of the examination centres.
The chief engineer, UPCl has been directed to ensure that no power cut occurs during the examination. Among the officers present on the occasion were SDM Vikasnagar Jitendra Kumar, Rishikesh SDM Brijesh Tiwari, Mussoorie SDM Harigiri Doiwala SDM Shalini Negi and district panchayat raj officer M Zafar Khan.