PM urged to address plight of pandemic-hit candidates
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 24 2021:
North East Students' Organisation (NESO) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give compensatory attempt in 2022 as one-time relief for all UPSC Civil Services and other Group A, B & C Services central government exams candidates, who were affected due to Covid-19 pandemic.
In a letter addressed to PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday, NESO highlighted the plight of lakhs of candidates who had their last attempt in 2020 and 2021 and are ineligible to appear in 2022, either due to being age bar or by virtue of exhausting their permissible number of attempts, in UPSC Civil Services and all other Group A, B & C service recruitment exams conducted by Central government (UPSC/SSC/IBPS/RBI etc.) in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020/2021.Citing several hardships faced by aspirants during the pandemic, NESO urged the central government to give relaxation for the pandemic affected years.
All the aspirants who had the last attempt in the year 2020 should be entitled to two years age relaxation and two more attempts.The aspirants who had the last chance in 2021 should be given another attempt considering the fact that they were affected for the year due to the pandemic, it further demanded.