APS recruitment exam delayed, candidates in a bind
Hundreds of aspirants preparing for years have either become overage or are on the brink of it as the exam has not been conducted after 2013
PRAYAGRAJ: Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has failed to issue advertisement for conducting additional private secretary (APS) recruitment exam after 2013 and a large number of candidates preparing for the recruitment exam for years are now on the verge of becoming overage.
For the APS recruitment exam, the age limit for general candidates is between 21 and 40 years. OBC and SC candidates get age relaxation of three and five years respectively.
The candidates allege that despite having already received information of over 250 vacant posts of APS in different departments, the commission has failed to initiate the process for filling these vacant posts.
Umesh Pandey, who had appeared in the 2013 APS recruitment exam but failed to qualify and is on verge of getting overage after attaining 40 years later this year, is livid. “This is gross injustice. Officials simply do not care that delay of each day means that hundreds become ineligible to appear in the exam despite having devoted years in its preparations. if the commission fails to issue the advertisement latest by December 2021, I will become ineligible to appear in the recruitment exam,” he said.
Other such candidates like
Ram Vilas Vishwakarma, an OBC category candidate born on March 15, 1976, to Jagdish
Gupta born on July 27, 1978, and Manoj Patel born on May 27, 1977, have all now become ineligible to appear in the recruitment exams.
Some others like Arvind Kumar, an SC candidate born on December 25, 1978, and general category candidates like Ashutosh Pandey born on August 3, 1982, and Anuj Srivastava who was born on June 20, 1983, are on verge of losing the opportunity unless the UPPSC gets cracking quickly.
UPPSC officials maintain that for the recruitment exam for the vacant posts of APS, they sent the revised syllabus to the state government for approval quite some time back and were waiting for its nod. “As soon as the course revision proposed by us gets approved by the state government, we will issue the advertisement,” said UPPSC secretary Jagdish.