The agitation of competitive students is continuing in protest against the proposed PCS preliminary and RO-ARO preliminary examination to be held in two days by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC).
Amidst the heated politics due to the uproar over the decision of the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC), the competitive students have also coined a slogan of their own. The slogan of the students sitting on an indefinite strike is, ‘Na Batenge Na Hatenge’. Thousands of pamphlets with this slogan were distributed among the students.
Through this slogan, the students have sent a message to the commission that until a notice is issued to conduct the examination in two days and cancel normalization, the students are not going to leave the protest site.
At the protest site, the students were also carrying many placards in their hands, on which slogans were written. Through these slogans, the students were expressing their displeasure against the decision of the commission.
Neither the flag of any student organization nor any political party was seen at the protest site. Students were seen waving only the tricolor. During this protest, which took place just 200 meters from Chandrashekhar Azad Park, students were seen waving pictures of martyr Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, and Mahatma Gandhi in their hands. Students kept saying repeatedly that they were protesting peacefully and would stay there till their demands were met.
There is also a way to amend the government order
Competitive students say that if there is any compulsion to conduct the examination on two days due to the non-availability of a sufficient number of centers and to apply normalization for uniform evaluation, then there is a solution to this too.
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In view of the security of question papers, the government order under which the process of determining the center has been made strict, and private schools and colleges have been made examination centers, that government order can also be amended.
Government medical colleges, engineering colleges, universities, and polytechnics can also be made examination centers. Anyway, if the government is responsible for the security of question papers and conducting the examination, then why is the future of the students being played with? What is the guarantee that the paper will not be leaked in examination for two days?
The loudspeaker remained the only means of communication
The students and the representatives of the commission talked through the loudspeaker throughout the day. The representatives of the commission kept appealing to end the protest again and again. In the evening, a proposal was also put before the candidates that the commission would form a committee to consider their demands, but the candidates did not agree and said that now they would end the protest only after the notice of cancellation of normalization was issued.
DM and the Police Commissioner reached out to convince the students but the matter could not be resolved
Late night, Police Commissioner Tarun Gaba and District Magistrate Ravindra Mandhad also reached the Public Service Commission. For a long time, both the officers tried to convince the protesting candidates, but the candidates remained adamant about their demands. The competitive students are not ready to back down at any cost.
On one hand, there was a crowd of competitive students outside the commission campus all day long, and on the other hand, a crowd of students kept coming towards the commission from every road leading to the commission. The students had already decided that they would not leave the protest, so many friends kept coming from among them, sometimes with water bottles and sometimes with packets of biscuits and namkeen.
Normalization not clear on uniform evaluation
The commission implemented normalization for uniform evaluation of the candidates appearing in different shifts in the two-day examination, but the commission did not clarify how this formula would work. Candidates say that the commission has given the formula to calculate percentile score, but how will the normalization be done? There is also doubt whether this formula is scientifically effective or not. The examinations in which normalization was applied have always been in controversies.
This is the demand of the students
The competitive students are adamant on one demand that the PCS and RO/ARO preliminary examinations should be conducted on the same day. The students have started a movement against the decision of UPPSC to conduct the PCS and RO-ARO preliminary examination in two days. At the same time, the commission is adamant about examining it in two days.
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