There is some good news for candidates appearing in competitive examinations. You can now get information about the marks you scored as also the basis for the marking under the Right to Information Act.
There is some good news for candidates appearing in competitive examinations. You can now get information about the marks you scored as also the basis for the marking under the Right to Information Act.
The Central Information Commission, while hearing the plea of an examinee, concluded that details of the marks, subjectwise and also the parameter of the test, should be disclosed to the examinee.
But the candidate will not be informed about his rank. The reason for this is that it may not be humanly possible for the examination agency to maintain the records of so many failed candidates.
A slightly positive aspect of the ruling is that the examination agency will also have to reveal the marks scored by the last successful candidate in the general category so that the unsuccessful candidate can know the difference between him and the successful candidate.
This will definitely make the task of the UPSC a little more difficult as in many exams, it does not provide the results to unsuccessful candidates.
The ruling came on a petition filed by Yashpal Singh, a resident of Janakpuri, who had sought information about his rank in the exam conducted by the Staff Selection Commission for inspectors in Central Excise.
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.
