Physically handicapped candidates to get max 7 Attempts in UPSC Exams : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court passed an order on Tuesday stating that disabled applicants cannot seek extra preferences on the grounds of Other Backward Caste (OBC) category, and they will get seven not 10 chances to appear in the civil service examination.

As per the government policy of 2007, the differently-abled candidates will get seven attempts, said the bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi and Ashok Bhushan.

"The present case is not a case of treating unequals as equal. It is a case of extending concessions and relaxations to the physically handicapped candidates belonging to general category as well as physically handicapped belonging to OBC category. Physically handicapped category is a category in itself, a person who is physically handicapped, be it physically handicapped of a general category or OBC category, suffering from similar disability has to be treated alike in extending the relaxation and concessions," noted the bench in its judgment.

The order further states that "no discrimination or arbitrariness can be found" when differently-abled candidates belonging to both the categories are granted seven attempts to sit in the examination.

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Courtesy: ENA India