New Delhi: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has asked Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to go ahead with the 2014 Civil Services results based on the Supreme Court order on Jat reservation, sources said on Monday.
After the Supreme Court struck down Jat reservations, the UPSC had delayed the Civil Services Mains result and sought DoPT's view on whether to withdraw reservation benefits to Jat students.
The DoPT told UPSC to go with the SC order and decide for itself on what needs to be done. In March 2015, the Supreme Court had set aside Centre's notification to extend the benefit of reservations to the Jat community.
The National Backward Classes Commission in its earlier recommendation had refused to give reservation to the Jats in the OBC category.
Numerically strong, the farming community of Jats in nine North Indian states have been demanding reservation under OBC quota for a long time. Many times, they even staged violent protests in some parts of north India. Jats have a strong presence in Haryana, Delhi, Western UP, Punjab, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
UPSC conducts the Civil Services Examination (CSE) for recruitment to Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and Central Group A and Group B services. The format has three stages - Preliminary examination which consists of two objective-type papers (General Studies and Aptitude Test), the Main examination which consists of nine papers of conventional (essay) type followed by the Personality Test of interview).
The entire process from the notification of the Preliminary examination to declaration of the final results takes roughly one year. Civil Services are the most coveted jobs in India and the competition is extremely tough with several lakh aspirants taking the Preliminary examination out of which just a few thousands qualify for the Main examinations and just a couple of thousand are called for Personality Test.
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