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Nainital. This enabled the Committee to focus on these broad categories as reasons/grounds for
challenging the action of Public Service Commissions.
The five broad categories, approved by other Chairpersons are:
1. Questioning the validity of the Government Rules, Orders, notifications, etc., relating to
recruitment of Civil Servants.
2. Questioning the validity of the notification inviting applications or orders made or action
taken by the Commission during the course of selection process.
3. Questioning the correctness of action taken by the Chairman and Members in awarding
marks or preparing the select lists.
4. Staff of the Commission challenging the orders relating to their service conditions, and
5. Challenging some action relating to appointment, seniority and the like taken by the
Government in relation to persons selected by the Commission subsequent to the selection
by the Commission where the Commission is made a formal party.
PROBLEMS FACED BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS
In spite of the best efforts made by the Public Service Commission to maintain its integrity, unsuccessful
candidates do find faults with its functioning. So the objective of the Public Service Commissions shall
be to see how best they could visualize the possible ways the candidates might interpret the rules,
notifications, orders and decisions of the Public Service Commission and make these things simple,
specific and objective. This will certainly help in reducing the number of litigations. Considering the
huge task and responsibility of the Public Service Commissions in its functioning a few litigations are
inevitable. In fact they are healthy also. However, the number of cases in different courts is very high
which seems to point towards certain flaws in some areas of administration. Strict compliance with the
procedure would itself vastly reduce the litigation in many areas. So the main task before all the State
Commissions is, to reduce, if not, eliminate, litigation.
The two main grounds for focusing the attention of all Public Service Commissions are, in the first
instance, how litigation can be reduced and the second, what additional steps are required to be
undertaken by the Commission in order to maintain the reputation. The cost factor for both Commission
and the petitioner candidates has to be reduced. The Commissions could think of conducting general
orientation programmes or awareness programmes for candidates before they apply for any post. In
this electronic era, the same may be conducted through Tele conference.
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