Hi, I was refering to the scribe rules which has been laid in UPSC CS Mains Exam Notification dated 1st August 2019. It reads as follows in Page 9: "The candidates have discretion of opting for his/her own scribe or request the Commission for the same. The details of scribe i.e. whether own or the Commission’s and the details of scribe in case candidates are bringing their own scribe, will be sought at the time of filling up the application form online. Suitable provisions in Online Application have been made. The qualification of the Commission’s scribe as well as own scribe will not be more than the minimum qualification criteria of the examination. However, the qualification of the scribe should always be matriculate or above."
Hence, this means that the scribe qualification should be less than or equal to graduation. 1. Request if anyone of you can help me in understanding whether the rules framed in 2018 by the Government with regards to the scribe's qualification constraint is still effective? Or please correct my understanding, if I am wrong. I was having the understanding that there was a subsequent Judicial guidelines in 2018, which restored the scribe qualifications back to Government's order issued in 2013, which reads as follows: " Criteria like educational qualification, marks scored, age or other such restrictions for the scribe/reader/lab assistant should not be fixed. Instead, the invigilation system should be strengthened, so that the candidates using scribe/reader/lab assistant do not indulge in mal-practices like copying and cheating during the examination." Hence, please help in understanding whether there is any uniform policy on scribe and if so then from where this can be obtained? There are many candidates who have limited resources and they do not have flexibility with making the choices of the scribes and sometimes this becomes more difficult in small towns and rural areas. 2. Secondly, while I was volunteering certain classes at a NGO last Saturday, I got following feedback from some of the students. a) One of the student stated that she went for IDBI examination recently. At the centre, she was told that a non-Arts student cannot be her scribe. Although there was nothing as such mentioned in the notification. b. A blind brother and sister visited Kolkata from Asansol to appear in UPSC Prelims examination in June 2019, since they could not able to manage their own scribe, so they opted for the Commission's scribe. But their feedback was that the scribes were unable to read the sentences properly and there was a wide mismatch with the pronunciation of the scribes as well, as a result of which their performance was highly impacted. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
