Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Monday told the Supreme Court that the matter to provide an extra attempt to aspirants who had missed the main exams due to Covid-19 is “very complicated".
This comes in response to a petition filed by three aspirants, who cleared the UPSC 2021 prelims exam but could not appear in all papers of the main exam held in January after testing positive for Covid-19.
The petitioners had sought the UPSC to extend them an additional attempt to appear in the exam or in the alternate make some arrangement to appear in the rest of the papers, which they could not give, before the publication of the result.
While two of the three petitioners had to leave the main exam, held from 7 to 16 January, in-between after appearing in some initial papers, the third aspirant could not appear in any of the papers due to Covid.