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UPSC challenges vacation of stay order

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Challenges vacation of stay order

NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Commission has approached a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court challenging the vacation of stay ordered by a Single Judge Bench on the directions given by the Central Information Commission to the UPSC regarding disclosure of marks to the aggrieved civil services aspirants. In its petition filed on Thursday, the UPSC argued that the Single Judge Bench ought to have given due weight to confidentiality. There was a difference between maintaining transparency and maintaining confidentiality, the UPSC argued. It also maintained that revealing the cut-off marks would affect its efficacy and also that coaching institutes would take undue advantage if the scaling system was revealed and the model answers were also shown to candidates. They would also resort to pushing dummy candidates into the competition, upsetting the level of cut-off marks and prevent meritorious candidates from getting into civil services.

The UPSC also argued that the scaling method was not in the public domain as was noted by the Single Judge Bench. In the petition, the UPSC stated that the counter affidavit being referred to was filed before the Supreme Court in connection with another case pertaining to the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC).

In the said affidavit, only the basic outline of the method was given just to prove that the system of scaling adopted by the UPSC was much different from the method adopted by the UPPSC. Further, it was argued that if the scaling method had been in the public domain the CIC need not have asked the UPSC to consider revealing the same in its order given last year.

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