UPSC Civil Aspirants: In October last year, the Supreme Court rejected the petition of the participants who appeared for the civil examination in its final chance. In this petition, the UPSC aspirants demanded an additional exemption. In UPSC exam, general category people get 6 attempts till the age of 32, Other Backward Classes (OBC) get 9 opportunities till the age of 35 and SC / ST candidates till 37 years of age. In the petition, the contestants who gave their last ambushes in October 2020 last year demanded that their preparations were affected by the Corona epidemic and the national lockdown, so they should be given another opportunity.
Agree to give additional chance with conditions
In early February, the central government said in the Supreme Court that it was ready to give an extra chance to UPSC Civil Services aspirants who had done the exam in all their occasions. However, according to the central government, it will only give them an opportunity to aspirants whose income has not crossed the prescribed limit. According to the news agency PTI, the central government had said that it was ready to give only one additional chance to candidates who can fulfill the age-old criterion to sit in CSE-2021 and they had their last chance in 2020.
Preparation was affected due to Corona- Petition
Earlier, the Central Government had said in the Supreme Court that it cannot give another chance to aspirants who had the last chance in the last year in 2020 and they could not get involved or their preparation could not be good due to the Corona epidemic. . Let us know that due to Corona epidemic last year, a lockdown was imposed across the country, due to which many aspirants have said in the petition in the Supreme Court that their preparation was affected and they could not perform in the examination to the best of their ability. Because of this, he filed a petition seeking additional opportunity.