Civil Services 2011 candidates to get extra chance this year

Candidates who had appeared in the civil services examination in 2011 will get another chance this year.
The move comes following an assurance given by the government in this regard last year.
"Those who had taken civil services examination in 2011 will be given an extra chance this year," a senior official in Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said.
A large group of students had in July last year protested against the pattern of civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC). They had demanded change in Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) of Paper II of civil services preliminary examination.

Following the protests, the government had decided that marks of the English section questions, asked in the paper, will not be included for gradation or merit. The change had come in force from civil services examination, 2014, onwards.
"Candidates, who appeared in civil services examination 2011, may be given one more attempt in 2015," Union Minister Jitendra Singh had said in Parliament in August last year.

A total of 4,72,290 candidates had applied for civil services preliminary examination 2011, out of which 2,43,003 had appeared.
The civil services examination is conducted in three stages -- preliminary, main and interview -- to select candidates for prestigious Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.

The results of civil services examination, 2014 are yet to be announced.