UPSC Prelims 2020 Date To Be Postponed? Supreme Court Heard The Plea Today And Next Hearing Will Be On 30th September 2020

UPSC Prelims 2020 date for Civil Services examination is scheduled for October 4, 2020. 20 Candidates have petitioned for the postponement of UPSC Civil Services 2020 Preliminary examination date. Supreme Court of India, SC would be hearing the plea for postponing UPSC Prelims 2020 will be now heard on September 30, 2020. The Supreme Court has asked Union Public Service Commission, UPSC, to file a reply as to why the IAS, IPS recruitment examination cannot be postponed.

Close to 20,000 students have signed an online petition to postpone the exam. Amit Panda, a student from Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh, who has signed the petition, told Moneycontrol that inadequate transport facilities are a major cause of concern. Many candidates like me have to travel several hundred kilometres to the main cities to write the test. Bus frequency is poor. How can everyone be expected to travel by private vehicles?

Questions have also been raised about what happens to centres that have now become containment zones. Also, since the health ministry rules on exams states that students from containment zones will not be allowed to enter exam centres, the fate of candidates from these areas is uncertain. UPSC has not yet clarified as to what rules will be followed for students from containment zones or for those who have tested positive in the recent past.

Diwakar Sinha of Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand said that the state governments must be instructed to ply special trains during UPSC prelims. "Jharkhand has less than 10 centres. This means that all students will have to come to main cities like Ranchi to take the preliminary exams. If exams cannot be postponed, the state government must allow public transport like trains and buses to run at full capacity or make special arrangements for students," he added.

The UPSC Result 2019 showed that only 0.1 percent of the total applicants were selected in the list released by the commission. A total of 800,000 candidates had appeared for the UPSC Prelims 2019, of which 12,000 were selected for the UPSC Mains Examination. Finally, 829 candidates were shortlisted after the interview. UPSC is among one of the most sought after exams in India and every years Lakhs of students appear for the exams. The exams are the gateway of becoming a bureaucrat in India. In this unprecedented times, centre should postpone the exams citing health concerns and Supreme Court will finally declare the decision on 30th of this month. The exams were originally scheduled for 31^st May but were postponed till 4^th October and now it seems like, they will be postponed again as well.