Chandigarh Newsline: Chandigarh: Friday, May 25, 2012.
Ten unsuccessful aspirants who had appeared for the 2009 Punjab Civil Services’ (PCS) executive preliminary examination, moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday, demanding a stay on final result of the PCS Combined Competitive Examination.
Their counsel, advocate Himmat Singh Shergill, alleged that the entire selection process has been carried out by flouting rules laid down by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC). Following this, the high court adjourned the case to July for resumed hearing.
The petitioners have made PPSC a respondent in the petition. Shergill told the court that according to the rules laid down for paper setting, the PPSC guildeline states that a list of eminent, professors/subject experts from the universities outside Punjab, Haryana, Himachal and Chandigarh and approved by the commission will have to be set up. “Ten sets of papers should be prepared, to be used as and when required. Each paper-setter should set questions for one part of the syllabus only, which can be combined later, whenever an examination is held by picking up one paper out of each of the parts,” the norm added.
The petitioners submitted that this regulation has not been followed for the PCS examination, 2009.
Shergill added that he has obtained information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act that Panjab University had conducted the preliminary stage of the said examination.
Information demanded under RTI from other institutes, including PPSC, is awaited, he added. riate time.
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