WHAT DOES UPSC HAVE TO SAY?
On Thursday, 7 January, UPSC also released a statement on the misleading claims being made on social media regarding the Reserve List in Civil Services Examinations.
“Along with the list of recommended candidates of Main result, the Commission also maintains a consolidated Reserve List of candidates of general and reserved categories ranking below the last recommended candidate in the merit order under each of the categories for subsequent 2 recommendation after concluding the exercise of service allocation of the recommended candidates of the Main result by the Government {Sub-rule 16(4) of the Gazette Notification of Civil Services Examination, 2019},” the statement reads.
It further said that the resultant vacancies that are generated because of the category movements are “filled up from the Reserve List, on a requisition received from the Government for each category including the General (unreserved) category.”
Evidently, social media users…
