Delhi Cabinet Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam Friday wrote a letter to the Chairman of Union Public Service Commission ( UPSC ) and raised the issue of caste based discrimination faced by many candidates belonging to the reserved categories during UPSC interview.
He said that there is systematic discrimination in awarding marks to reserve category students is suggested that the possibility of discrimination can be eliminated by keeping the cast of the candidate hidden.
He also suggested that interviewer should be chosen randomly instead of clubbing reserve and general category separately
This matter came to the fore when it was found through an RTI that there is a trend of giving less marks in the UPSC interview to reserved category candidates.