UPSC Aspirants Move SC Seeking An Extra Attempt After Losing Out To CSAT [Read Petition]

As many as 15 UPSC aspirants have moved the Supreme Court seeking an extra attempt at the prestigious examination for them and other similarly-placed candidates, who, they said, have lost precious attempts due to the introduction of Civil Services Aptitude Test in year 2011, which was ‘discriminatory against candidates belonging to the Hindi and other regional language. As many as 15 UPSC aspirants have moved the Supreme Court seeking an extra attempt at the prestigious examination for them and other similarly-placed candidates, who, they said, have lost precious attempts due to the introduction of Civil Services Aptitude Test in year 2011, which was ‘discriminatory against candidates belonging to the Hindi and other regional language medium’. The petitioners prayed for a direction to the Centre to allow extra attempts to them and other similarly situated candidates for UPSC examinations who lost their attempts in the year 2012, 2013 and 2014, due to CSAT system, which was declared a qualifying paper only in 2015. “…an aspirant gets only 6 attempts to clear the coveted Civil Services examinations and many among the Petitioners have lost four precious attempts due to mandatory and discriminatory CSAT examinations.