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UPSC exam process flawless: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has said that the present system of accepting forms for the Civil Services Examination by the Union Public Service Commission, or UPSC, is comprehensive and flawless. It asked the courts and the Central Administrative Tribunal, or CAT, not to allow students, in normal circumstances, to appear for the exam unless they have such a right since it puts burden on the commission and gives false hope to aspiring students. 

A bench comprising justices MK Sharma and Anil R Dave allowed the appeal of UPSC secretary and joint secretary, challenging the order of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. It had asked authorities to allow the student, S Krishna Chaitanya, to appear in the interview for IAS examination if found successful in the Civil Services (mains) Examination, 2010. 

According to the UPSC, it had not received the application form of the student in question, but the CAT had directed it to permit the student to appear for the preliminary exam. Later, the tribunal had also asked the UPSC to declare his result. 

The SC said: "... courts are becoming more sympathetic to the students and... authorities are directed to permit the students to take an examination without ascertaining whether the concerned candidate had a right to take the examination... if such a direction is given, the court must dispose of the case finally on merits before declaration of the result ," said Justice Dave.

Now you can access your Answer-sheets under RTI: SC

In a landmark ruling on Tuesday, a Supreme Court bench said students had the right to access their answer-sheets under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The court held that evaluated answer-sheets were covered under the definition of “information” under the RTI Act, 2005.  The bench, comprising justice RV Raveendran and justice AK Patnaik, upheld a February 5, 2009 ruling of the Calcutta high court that examination conducting agencies were not exempted under the transparency law from disclosing the answer-sheets.

The verdict will benefit lakhs of students appearing for various examinations, including those conducted by the UPSC, as it gives a student the right to inspect answer-sheets by just applying to the relevant university, council, board or commission.

The court dismissed the arguments of the Calcutta University, West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and CBSE, which contended that students had no right to have access to a disputed answer-sheet as there was a fiduciary relationship between the examiner and the examination conducting agency.

IPS lobby not happy with UPSC

Beginning 2012, the UPSC will hold a “limited competitive’’ examination annually for young officers belonging to Central paramilitary and state police forces exclusively into the IPS. The move to allow young officers of the armed forces to get into the IPS under the proposed scheme, however, has been turned down by the ministry of defense.

This newspaper had first reported that the proposed examination would be open to assistant commandants with at least five years experience in the five major Central police and paramilitary organisations — CRPF, BSF, ITBP, SSB, CISF and deputy superintendents of police in the states who have not crossed 35 years of age. There would be further relaxation of norms for the reserved category.

The IPS lobby wasn’t happy with the proposal fearing a dilution of the “elite’’ force. The UPSC too feared a “parallel’’ induction may adversely affect the existing structure. However, determined in its task to plug the gap in the backdrop of mounting internal security challenges — terrorism, Left wing extremism and a rising crime graph — the home ministry had approached the PMO to set aside the UPSC’s decision early this year.

Delhi HC stays CIC order to UPSC on info on marksheet

The Delhi High court yesterday stayed the CIC order directing the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to reveal information about marksheets and the recommendations of the Personality Test (PT) Board of the qualified candidates in the civil service examination in 2009.

Issuing a notice to Kumar Sauvir, whose plea was accepted by CIC for supply of the information, Justice Rajiv Sahai

Endlaw sought his reply by August 24 while granting the stay order on the Central Information Commission's (CIC) order.

Filing a petition challenging the CIC's order, the UPSC said disclosure of the marksheets, recommendations of the (PT) board over the successful candidates would not only endanger the process of secrecy but also damage the confidentiality of the civil service examination.

The UPSC also expressed its apprehension that the interested persons would manipulate or misuse the information supplied by the Commission.

In January this year, the CIC had allowed Sauvir's application in which he had stated that he appeared for civil service examination in 2009 but could not get through.

Aggrieved by the result announced by the UPSC, Sauvir had sought the information from UPSC in May 2009 but the Commission had refused to supply the information to him.

Red Cross - Think before you use that symbol

The emblem of the International Red Cross is “The Red Cross on White Background.” This originated in the 1864 Geneva Convention. It is also known as the Geneva Cross. This is inscribed on humanitarian and medical vehicles and buildings to protect them from military attack on the battlefield.

Unfortunately, we are using the Red Cross emblem wherever we like. Our paramedical personnel and even chemists use it. It is a gross violation and punishable as per the existing laws of the nation. Most of us are not even aware of this.

The common symbol to denote medical services is the caduceus, a figure that comprises a short staff rod with two serpents curled around it, sometimes surmounted by wings. It is the staff of Aesculapius, the ancient mythological god of medicine. Let us use this symbol and stop using the Red Cross symbol.

R. Anandakumar, the Collector of Erode, who put his child in a government school

This month when schools across Tamil Nadu reopened after summer vacation, a school in Erode created a bit of stir. Enrolled in the school, it turned out, was a six-year-old girl called Gopika, whose father happens to be the district collector, R. Anandakumar. The Tamil-medium Panchayat Union primary school has no other child of a government official and, reportedly, even teachers prefer to send their children elsewhere — as it is their legitimate right to do, to enrol their children where they think their life chances are better served. Anandakumar’s decision to send his daughter to the panchayat school is, instead, a reminder of the need for the privileged and well-connected to be invested in state schools and to narrow the gap, both perceived and very real, with private schools.

A seemingly stray development after Gopika’s enrolment is revealing. When news spread that the collector’s child was a student there, officials of the panchayat visited the school to recce the facilities. Education is central to the promise of equality of opportunity, a crucial part of the essential contract of our Constitution. This contract has been dishonoured in many ways. In ways that curriculums have been framed, for instance, so that state schools have been denied a beneficially multilingual mix, in the name of protecting local languages. Yet when in such a policy framework when children of those who make and implement the policy are sent to private schools, mostly English-medium, it raises questions about sensitivity to aspirations. And as the Erode case shows, how facilities are checked when a child of a somebody enlists in state-run schools, the message is also reinforced that when the elites opt out of common schools, the responsibility to maintain them too is often abdicated.