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Special
facilities for disabled candidates
Chetan
Chauhan
New
Delhi,
September 29
Candidates
with physical disability aspiring to sit for the civil
service examination conducted by the Union Public Service
Commission (UPSC) need no longer fret. The commission
will provide special facilities to them from next year.
A
scribe for each visually handicap candidates would be
provided free of cost. Till now, such candidates had
to get their own help, which more often then not, could
not meet the commission's parameters.
An
invigilator would keep an eye on each scribe to prevent
him from attempting unfair means in the examination.
This concept is being introduced for the first time,
an UPSC official said.
The
UPSC estimates that around 30-40 visually impaired candidates
appear for the civil services examination in each of
its 41centres.
"Their
number has increased manifold in the past few years
especially in metropolitan cities. Keeping these statistics
in mind we have decided to provide them this special
facility," the official said.
For
the physically disabled candidates, the commission will
take special care that all of them are accommodated
in the ground floor of the examination centre and near
toilets. "Wheelchairs, however, can't be provided at
the centres as the examination centres are schools which
is not our property," an official said.
However,
the commission is toying with the idea to adopt examination
centres were wheelchairs could be provided. "The proposal
is at consideration stage," an official said. The examination
halls in the UPSC headquarters at Dholpur house, has
wheelchairs though.
The
Union government has also decided that recruitment for
assistant commandant level posts in paramilitary forces
under Union Home Ministry like Border Security Force
and Staff Selection Board would be conducted by the
commission. So far, the organizations were holding the
examinations themselves.
It
has also been decided that civil service examination
results would be announced before notification for next
year's examinations. Hence, the civil service result
would come out a month before the scheduled time.
Source:
The Times of India
Dated :30th September, 2002
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