Supreme Court to decide for the extra attempt in UPSC 2021 tomorrow

Supreme Court to decide about an Extra attempt in UPSC IAS 2021 exam tomorrow. Centre to resubmit the affidavit today.

The Supreme Court of India asks Centre to submit the affidavit again with the signature of Secretary. The current affidavit bears the signature of under-secretary. It is not clear in the affidavit that who took such decision of refusing the extra and compensatory attempt in the Civil Service Exam 2021. The SC already directed the government to not to issue Civil Service Notification 2021 till the matter is sub judice.

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The matter was listed for hearing today on January 28. The counter-affidavit was filed by the petitioner on January 27, in response to the Centre’s affidavit for not providing an additional compensatory attempt to the candidates who did not appear in the UPSC IAS Prelims exam 2020 conducted on October 4.

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Senior Advocate CU Singh, submitted before the court that the students who had to give their last attempt were forced to appear in the IAS Prelims exam 2020 irrespective of their preparation as there was no clarity on the issue. In the other petition seeking postponement of the IAS Prelims 2020 exam, the centre said that it will consider providing an extra attempt. But the recent affidavit submitted by the Centre was on contrary to the previous submissions.

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