The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to consider granting one-time relaxation on age limit to UPSC civil service aspirants. This includes those who had exhausted their last attempt in the 2020 exam amid the Covid-led pandemic.
This comes after the Centre had on February 5 told the SC that it was agreeable to give an extra chance as a one-time relaxation to those civil service aspirants, who had appeared in their last attempt in the 2020 exam and are otherwise not age-barred.
It, however, had said that no relaxation shall be granted for 2021 exam to those candidates who have not exhausted their permissible number of attempts or to those who are otherwise age-barred from appearing in 2021 exam as per the prescribed age limits of different categories, or to any other candidate for any other reason whatsoever.
