MAT Orders State GAD, MPSC Oral Interview 2013

MAT Orders State GAD, MPSC Oral Interview 2013

RESPONDING to the application filed by Umesh Jain. Shukdas Garoleand Ganesh Pande - all from Buldhana district, the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal (MAT) has ordered issuance of notice before admission to die respondents State General Administration Department (GAD) Secretary and the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) Secretary, to show cause in reply to the application of these applicants, in four weeks coupled with the interim direction to the MPSC to call these applicants for oral interviews being held from March 6 to 23. 2013.

The application is directed against the respondent MPSC's decision of not to give marks for the wrong questions asked in its main examination of the MPSC. The applicants are aggrieved by the MPSC's decision of February 20. 2013. whereby the candidature of the applicants for appearing in the examination for various Class \ and Class U posts was not considered.

AH these applicants are Arts graduates and desire to be selected and appointed as Gazetted Officers. On March 14. 2012. the MPSC issued an advertisement inviting applications for various posts in the State Government. In response to the said advertisement, the applicants have applied under thcOBC category. The applicants were allowed to appear in the preliminary examination held on June 10 last year and they were declared successful in the said examination. As per the advertisement published on August 3, 2012. the applicants appeared om the main examination conducted on September I to 3. 2012.

As per revised answer key publishedonJanuary 17.2013.4ques-tion papers, in all 22 objeciive questions were found wrong due to serious mistakes committed by paper-setters of the MPSC. Because of wrong questions, candidates were entitled to get 22 marks. When the results were declared on February 25,2013. the applicants found thai they were not given 22 marks. Though, if these applicants arc given these 22 marks, they all will qualify for the interview, for want of that, they have been shown as "not qualified". Hence this lapse on the pan of the MPSC is bad in law and requires to he quashed. The applicants have also argued against the MPSC cancelling the wrong questions and not giving marks of these questions to the candidates.