UPPSC to conduct main exams

New Delhi, June 14: The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) can now conduct main exams for Upper Subordinate Services Examination 2017 as the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed its appeal challenging the Allahabad High Court order directing re-evaluation of the answer-sheets. Preliminary exam for 677 positions were held on September 24, 2017. Advertisement for the same was issued on February 22, 2017. Initially exam was for recruitment of 251 posts but later it was increased to 677. Allowing the appeal by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission, the vacation bench of Justice Uday Umesh Lalit and Justice Deepak Gupta set aside the High Court’s March 30 order directing the re-evaluation of the answer-sheets of the preliminary examination. (IANS)