It has been a three-year agonising wait for U. Narasimha, that has taken a toll on his health and almost shut the doors for his entry into a top position in the State Government services.
In the process, he has crossed 44 years and his life has been further complicated by the bifurcation of the State. He is not the only one, as there are 605 other aspirants who share his agony of waiting for justice for the fault of Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) and subsequent legal wrangles over the results of the Group-I recruitment examination conducted in 2012.
Waiting for results
After clearing the Prelims, Mains and attending the interview these students are still awaiting the results as two candidates have moved the court against six ambiguous questions in the Prelims paper and wanted a re-exam. “These candidates raised the Prelims issue after the Mains were conducted and that shows their intention to stall the process,” claims Mr. Narasimha. “Interestingly, those two candidates would not qualify for Mains even if marks for those six questions are awarded to them.”
Re-examination
The issue landed in the Supreme Court that ruled that the Mains examination be conducted again for all the 9,000 candidates who appeared for the Mains earlier. “We are being punished for no fault and that too after three years of the examination,” say G. Rajani Kanth Reddy and V. Jagadeeshwar, two other aspirants who attended the interview and are confident of getting through.
“The APPSC has misled and stopped us from impleading in the Supreme Court and failed to present our case properly. How can we write the exam again when we already attended the interview,” they argue.
The candidates’ contention is that the exam be conducted for the 209 candidates who would qualify for the Mains after the marks are awarded to the six ambiguous questions in Prelims that had multiple correct answers.
State bifurcation
Another practical and constitutional problem that may hamper the entire process is the State bifurcation and the APPSC losing its relevance now and Telangana constituting its own Public Service Commission in the divided state. “This will lead to some crisis and only the Supreme Court can save our future allowing the APPSC to release the results, which will be accepted by both AP and Telangana,” says another aspirant B. Praveen Kumar.
Follow UPSC
On the question of two Mains exams for the same recruitment notification, these candidates say that UPSC selects candidate for all top posts based on the written tests in different languages and subjects.
The same rationale can be applied for arriving at the final results after the 209 candidates are allowed to take the Mains again.
“This will not hurt anyone and will do justice to our five-year effort,” say the candidates.
SC ruled that the Mains exam be conducted again for all the 9,000 candidates
