Patna HC Keeps Guessing the Student in 53-55 PT Case

Patna, Dec, 10: Patna high court has kept  the BPSC aspirants guessing as every morning expectation of judgment takes birth and with sunset it dies.

Students are getting frustrated of with the waiting game some are saying "justice delayed is justice denied" and some are buying the idea of "justice hurried is justice buried" but end result is waiting game for the students.

No one likes uncertainty either it is exam taking body like BPSC or the students, they trapped under the vicious cycle of Indian justice system.

No one cares about the students for court this is only a case despite of completion of hearing court is buying time but they don’t understand that how important is time for the students.

Civil services dream of A visually challenged girl remains tied up

New Delhi,Dec,10:A visually challenged girl who cleared the UPSC Civil Services examination in 2008 is still struggling to get her appointment to one of the most coveted cadre jobs in the India, continues her fight to enter the system even as valuable time flies by.

Despite favourable judgments by the Central Administrative Tribunal(CAT) in October 2010 and the Apex Court on January 28, 2011, following which the UPSC recommended her name for appointment, bureaucrates of the country continue to plague 29-year-old Purnima Jain's entry into a job she attained after much hardship.

The Indore-resident also met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on November 29 along with CPM politburo member Brinda Karat to apprise him of her long struggle for a well-deserved job. “This is gross discrimination by the Department of Personnel and Training against brilliant students. The DoPT's attitude is that where are we going to place people without normal eyesight. Instead of congratulating and rewarding such students, you make them lose years of valuable public service they could have otherwise offered. The Prime Minister said he was not aware of the issue facing such students. He promised to rectify the injustice caused to Ms. Purnima and others,” recalled Brinda Karat, on the meeting Ms. Purnima and six other qualified candidates, had with Dr. Singh.

In a memorandum to PM Manmohan Singh, Ms. Purnima wrote: “I, Purnima Jain, am a visually impaired (VH) girl (partially blind). I am a law graduate with 80 per cent marks. I have done M.A. in Public Administration and have qualified N.E.T and J.R.F in Public Administration…I appeared for Civil Service Examination 2008, and secured 1,123 marks. The UPSC had given me excellent marks in interview - 210 marks out of 300-and yet did not consider me for selection.”

Ms. Purnima said the last person who got selected in 2008 had scored only a total of 991. “I wish to bring to your notice that I am the only VH female candidate securing higher marks. I also wish to assert that despite talent and having performed so well I have been unreasonably denied the success which I duly deserve to get and still remain unemployed. As the matter has been delayed by about two years, this requires an urgent intervention by you and, therefore, a prompt and timely action shall be of great help to me,” Ms. Purnima said in her memorandum.

“Sir, I have lived my dream to become an IAS officer and have pursued it as the purpose of my life. Today my eyes seem to have become the enemy of my dreams. I shall be highly obliged to you, if the process of my appointment to the Indian Administrative Service or Indian Foreign Service is expedited to help facilitate this blind girl and shall be thankful to you all my life.”

Ms. Purnima said that going by the provisions of Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 1995, there were to be nine seats reserved for visually challenged persons in 2008 but the UPSC selected only four persons.

“Though the CAT order had raised my hopes by directing the UPSC to act within six months to appoint me, their inaction even after a year of the judgment is unpardonable,” Ms. Purnima added, wryly pointing out that another World Disability Day had just gone by.

UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination is next on the reforms agenda

New Delhi, Dec, 10: The UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination is next on the reforms agenda to execute it UPSC has constituted an expert committee to suggest changes in the pattern of Civil Services (Main) examination.

The decision comes after the change in Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2011.

The alteration in the preliminary exam pattern weren’t as drastic as commission had originally hoped. This was the reason why the Union government was reluctant to change the name the preliminary test as the civil services aptitude test.

At the 3rd UPSC foundation day function, UPSC chairman said the changes had been well received as they provided the candidates a level playing field leading to improved quality of selection.

Chairman — who has been pushing reforms at the commission — went on to announce that the UPSC was looking at changes that needed to be made in the Civil Services (Main) examination as well as other exams.

“Consistent with the need for selecting the right kind of person from a huge pool consisting of multiple languages, creeds, culture and communities, the commission has now constituted a high-power committee to suggest possible changes in the pattern of Civil Services (Main) Examination,” he said.

Chairman also said that the commission’s endeavor was to ensure that “candidates are judged on the basis of in-depth knowledge and understanding rather than information gathered at the last moment.”

In six decades, UPSC has selected nearly 5 lakh candidates after examining over 46 million applicants which is equal to the population of South Africa or England.

Minister of State for Personnel and PMO V. Narayanasmay supportrd that the recruitment policies of the commission needed to be reviewed and revised to make recruitment faster and also to ensure induction of the civil servants with the right aptitude.

Chairman agreed, pointing that the UPSC was looking at other examinations to bring them in tune with the present scenario of country’s development and aspirations.

Similarly, he said, the UPSC had recommended an alternative system to the government to improve the process of induction of civil service officers from different streams into the All India Service.

JPSC is open for redressal of grievances of students: Examination controller

Ranchi, Dec,7: Surrounded with allegation  with corruption, JPSC once again assured the prospective applicants of resurrecting the errors in questions and their answers and published a corrected model answer sheet in 4th Civil Services PT examination. But even the so-called corrected model has many discrepancies and candidates.

The students those could not make it to the mains are blaming the JPSC for deliberately doing it for favoring the candidates of their choice.

According to the experts of the JPSC , the governor is the chairman of the state civil services is a true option (answer of Q no 25 in set C of political science paper) and the headquarters of G-15 is in New Delhi and not Geneva ( answer to Q no 84 in the same set).

In an another answer Karl Marx found the state to be an instrument of capitalists to exploit the working class, the JPSC experts feel otherwise that according to Marx, the state came into being to end exploitation of the poor (answer to Q no 62 in the same set of the paper).

According to a applicants, there are more than 6 answers in the recently released model answer sheet that are wrong. 

As per them, while it is an established fact that C Wright Mills coined the term "elite power", the JPSC answer sheet says it is V Pareto who did it which is wrong. Similarly, the answers of question nos. 18 and 69 are also wrong, he added.

Same problem is visible in subjects like Sociology, Law, PA, Geography etc where as much as 30 answers are wrongly quoted in the revised answer sheet.

This is really surprising to see the institutions like JPSC is unable to make 100 question and their correct answer.

The commission is also facing allegation of repeating majority of questions from UPSC previous year examinations.

Though the results of the 4th state civil services exams are out, candidates who could not make it are finding it difficult to digest the irregularities and are planning to take legal actions for scraping the results. Former chairman and many other members of the JPSC are already behind bars for allegedly committing mass irregularities to favor the candidates of their choice and their family members.

JPSC controller of examinations Bal Mukund Jha said the candidates should have intimated the irregularities in the revised answer sheets to the JPSC as the commission is open to redressal of grievances.

"If any such complaints come to us, we will certainly refer it to experts on the panel of the commission," he said.

Told about the wrong answers, he said though the responsibility of revising the answers was given to a renowned teacher of the state. "Even if we know it, we can't do it on our own. It has to be referred to the experts," he added.

Times of India

JPSC Working Style left Various Questions

Jharkhand Public Service (JPSC) the premier recruiter of Jharkhand Government who trying hard to come out of the mess of 4th Civil service examination but their every good efforts to make a fair and transparent system is getting ruined by the inefficient support from the other supporting body that helps to conduct the examination that includes question setters who has earlier copied the majority of the questions from the UPSC previous year question and provided faulty model answer to the JPSC.

The scaling method which is well accepted by the expert that it is erroneous and doesn’t gives real picture so it was dumped by UPSC in their IAS examination has adopted by the JPSC and became the centre of storm as it has awarded more than maximum marks to the students.

JPSC gone right to cancel the previous result and published fresh result based on the new model answer prepared by the separate expert but they have provided wrong answer again in several subject including sociology, Political Science, Public Administration, Geography, Mathematics etc.

The basic problem with JPSC is that they gone for change but they dont have proper infrastructural support to execute the change, in their earlier PT examination they were setting only qualify marks to select student for the mains.

JPSC act without the blue print is quite disappointing for the works of constitutional organization like JPSC.

Recent result has also spoiled the sentiments of the student the way things are going on with the recruitment process with JPSC since its inception creates doubts over the efficiency and requirement of such organization in Jharkhand. 

Jharkhand is a poorly governed state struggling to execute public work due to lack of administrative officers but JPSC failed to give fair appointment.