Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has slammed the UP government for refusing to extend the date of Uttar Pradesh PCS Mains 2017. The examinations will commence from Monday.
“This is injustice with the youth as the government is compromising with the future of thousands of students by not giving them more time for the preparation for the competitive examinations’’, said the former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav here on Sunday. He said over 4 lakh students had made the request to the chief minister Yogi Adityanath for extending the date to last week of July through micro blogging site Tweeter and a consensus was reached that that the examinations will be held in July.
“The secretary of the UP public service Commission (UPPSC) had also announced the examination schedule to be to held in last week of July yet without any justification dates were changed and commission announced to conduct the exams from June 18’’, said Akhilesh Yadav.
UPPSC the exam regulating body had announced the schedule on May 23, 2018 many candidates started protesting against it. ‘less than a month has been allowed for preparation,’ say the candidates who have been relentlessly posting their concern over social media platforms. Another group of candidates say the PCS main exams date clashes with other government recruitment examinations.
Former chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav, has shown his concern for the aggrieved candidates in one of his latest tweets. The tweet in Hindi, says, its injustice not to allow candidates even a month for the preparation. ‘The government should reschedule the exam date,’ he further adds.
UPPCS Mains exam was supposed to be held on May 4, 2018 as per the first schedule released by the Commission. However the exam was postponed when several candidates complained of the erroneous preliminary exam answer key. A petition was filed in the Allahabad high court in which candidates alleged that that answers to several of the questions asked in PCS preliminary exam were incorrect. To this, the High Court directed the Commission to re-evaluate the answer copies of PCS prelims 2017.
In May 2018, the Supreme Court put a conditional stay order on the High Court’s order. It was then the Commission’s Secretary commented that the Main exam will be conducted in July. The announcement of the exam date in late May and the exam scheduled on mid June, stirred confusion and anxiety among candidates.
On June 12, the Supreme Court dismissed the plea of the candidates who had demanded a stay on the mains examination saying UPPSC has not complied with the high court order. The apex court said the sanctity of an examination would be lost if courts through their power of judicial review keep interfering with the decisions taken by authorities conducting competitive tests.