High Court seeks
answer on rigging in UPPSC Staff Nurse Recruitment Exam
Allahabad High Court has sought information from the Commission on a
petition filed regarding rigging in the Public Service Commission's Sister
Grade Examination. Justice Manju Rani Chauhan has given this order after
listening to advocate Agnihotri Kumar Tripathi on the petition of Pratima
Upadhyay and others.
Advocate Tripathi told the court that the advertisement for Staff Nurse
Sister Grade 2 recruitment examination was issued in 2021. Its result was
declared on October 3, 2021. It has been said that despite the examination
being objective, the objections of the petitioners on the answer key issued by
the commission were not heard and the result was declared. Not only this,
the candidates who had attached their experience certificates. He was not
given even the 15 marks he got on it. The court had sought information
from the Public Service Commission in this matter, on which the commission said
that the certificate is being reviewed again. The court has fixed April 26
for next hearing, directing the matter to be listed along with other petitions.
The Staff Nurse/Sister Grade-2 (Male
and Female) was conducted by the UPPSC on behalf of the department of medical
education and training, medical and health services and King George’s Medical
University, Lucknow. For this, the commission had accepted online applications
from eligible candidates against 4,743 vacant posts till August 16, 2021. For
this, a total of 1,02,041 candidates had applied.
Within a month-and-a-half, the
commission had conducted the recruitment examination in Prayagraj, Lucknow,
Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur and Meerut on October 3, 2021 in which 83,564 candidates
had appeared.
“Around 50 males and 1,627 females
have been selected against 2,582 posts (50 males and 2,532 females) of medical
and health services department, 90 males and 623 females against 1,235 posts
(90 males and 1,145 females) of medical education and training department while
against 926 posts (46 males and 880 females) of King George’s Medical University,
46 males and 578 female candidates have been declared selected,” informed UPPSCsecretary Jagdish.
Against a total of 4,743 posts, 3,014
candidates have been selected while 1,729 posts remain vacant due to
non-availability of qualified candidates, he added.
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