CAT SET ASIDE SELECTION BY UPSC TO 57 POSTS IN LABOUR MINISTRY:
CAT SET ASIDE SELECTION BY UPSC:
☛ NEW DELHI: The Central Administrative Tribunal has set aside the selection of candidates by the UPSC to 57 posts in the Ministry of Labour and Employment in 2013, saying it disregarded the principles laid down by the Supreme Court for the conduct of exam.
☛ The tribunal's order came on a petition by a man who had challenged the selection procedure adopted by the Union Public Service Commission in that year, contending that the UPSC had allotted 50 percent weightage to interview section in violation of the apex court's directive that the marks cannot exceed 15 per cent.
☛ A bench of CAT Chairman Narasimha Reddy and Administrative member Pradeep Kumar said one cannot expect the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to remove itself from the position of an ideal employer, that too after "the Supreme Court treated it as a role model, and go to the extent of allocating 50 per cent of marks for interview, that too without revealing it in the notification".
☛ It said this kind of exercise does not auger well for a premier and reputed agency like the UPSC.
☛ Petitioner Mukesh Kumar Suman had contended that according to the laws laid down by the Supreme Court, when the selection process comprises of written test and interview, the marks allocated for the letter cannot exceed 15 per cent.
☛ The tribunal while setting aside the selections to 57 posts in the ministry, also ordered the Commission to re-do the exercise and publish the results after allocating 15 per cent weighage to interview.
☛ It also directed the Commission that if any of the selected candidates need to be displaced on account of the exercise, they be adjusted against the existing or subsequent vacancy.
☛ The premiere constitutional recruitment agency had conducted test for 57 posts of Assistant Labour Commissioner and other equivalent posts in the Ministry of Labour and Employment in 2013.
☛ The Commission had released an advertisement declaring the selection process, which included a written objective type test followed by interview.
☛ As per the advertisement, the weightage was to be decided by the Commission. Suman had secured 75 marks in the written test, which was 4th in rank but he was awarded 40 marks in the interview and was out of selection.
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