UPSC 2021: Extra Attempt call to be made by DoPT, Center tells Supreme Court

UPSC Main 2021: Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) will think on whether an extra attempt should be given to the UPSC aspirants who were not able to sit for their Civil Services exam due to COVID-19 and had sought for an extra attempt to appear in the exam or not, the Centre informed the Supreme Court on Monday(21 March).

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Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Centre, told the bench that the attorney representing the commission has said that he would file a counter affidavit in the same matter over the course of the day.

The bench said the next hearing on the matter would be on March 25. Bhati said that “There is real urgency because the result for this exam has already been announced. The only issue remains now is the extra attempt,”.

The plea to allow an extra attempt was filed by three UPSC aspirants through advocate Shashank Singh in which they urged to issue suitable direction to UPSC to extend the benefit of additional/extra attempts. The advocate also asked to make some arrangements for the three petitioners to appear in the remaining papers which the petitioners could not give before the release of the result of the Civil Service Mains Examination 2021.

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The petitioners said that they cleared the UPSC-2021 Prelims Examination and were entitled to appear in the UPSC Mains Examination but were Covid positive and there were restrictions imposed under the strict quarantine guidelines of the Government. The mains exams were scheduled from January 7 to 16, 2022 and there was no policy of UPSC which could provide arrangements for such petitioners who were Covid positive during the span of mains examination or before it.