DNA: New Delhi: Thursday, October 16, 2014.
The Union
Public Service Commission has advised candidates not to file RTI applications
to know results of civil services preliminary examination.
"The
Commission puts up the mark sheets of all candidates who takes the civil
services examination. Despite this, candidates file RTI applications to know
their results. We have been informing them that mark sheets will be uploaded on
our website once the entire selection procedure of this year's exam gets
over," a senior official of the UPSC said.
The results
of civil services preliminary examination, 2014 were declared yesterday by the
UPSC.
"Candidates
are also informed that marks, cut-off marks and answer keys of civil services
(preliminary) examination 2014 will be provided only after the entire process
of the civil services examination, 2014, is over i.e. after the declaration of
the final result.
"Therefore,
no application under RTI Act, 2005 or otherwise will be entertained in this
regard," the UPSC has said in a statement.
As many as
16,933 candidates have qualified in the civil services preliminary examination.
A total of 4,52,334 candidates have taken the test held on August 24 at 2,137
venues across 59 cities in the country.
The civil
services examination is conducted in three stages preliminary, main and
interview to select candidates for prestigious Indian Administrative Service
(IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) among
others.
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