Thanks to the persistent efforts made by an NGO, the division bench of Supreme Court yesterday issued a notice to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) against its faulty evaluation system of scaling or moderation used in the Civil Services (main) examination. The Supreme Court division bench comprising Justices G S Singhvi and S J Mukhopadhyay heard the petitioner’s plea, as presented by Senior Supreme Court Council KTS Tulsi, and thereafter issued the notice to the body.

Advocate Pankaj Kumar, who assisted Tulsi, said from Delhi, “This is an important move taken by the Supreme Court in the case. We had challenged the scaling or moderation system used by UPSC. It results in a lot of anomalies and irregularities, all of which have been reported in the past. The issue is about the transparency of the examination in this country. The UPSC will have to reply to the notice, at the next hearing.”