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The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided to allot 'centre of choice' to candidates with benchmark disabilities for each its examinations, successful a determination aimed astatine enhancing accessibility for specified aspirants, an authoritative connection issued connected Friday (December 12, 2025) said.
Recognising the logistical challenges and peculiar requirements often faced by these candidates, the Commission decided to guarantee that each idiosyncratic with benchmark disabilities (PwBD) applicant is allotted the introspection centre they bespeak arsenic their preferred prime successful the exertion form, the connection added.
Speaking astir the initiative, UPSC Chairman Ajay Kumar said, aft analysing introspection centre information of the past 5 years, "we observed that definite centres specified arsenic Delhi, Cuttack, Patna, Lucknow and others scope their capableness ceiling precise aboriginal owed to the precocious measurement of applicants".
"This creates challenges for PwBD candidates, who are past compelled to opt for centres that whitethorn not beryllium convenient for them. I americium pleased that, with this decision, each PwBD campaigner volition present beryllium assured of their preferred centre, ensuring maximum convenience and easiness portion appearing for UPSC examinations," helium said.
To operationalise this initiative, the Commission has decided that the existing capableness of each centre volition archetypal beryllium utilised by some PwBD and non-PwBD candidates.
"Once the centre reaches its afloat capacity, it volition nary longer stay disposable for enactment by non-PwBD candidates; however, PwBD candidates volition proceed to person the enactment to prime that centre. The UPSC volition past marque further capableness arrangements truthful that nary PwBD campaigner is denied the centre of their choice," said the connection issued by the Commission.
The UPSC conducts antithetic authorities jobs recruitment examinations, including the prestigious civilian services examination, to prime the country's bureaucrats, diplomats and constabulary officers, among others.
The civilian services introspection is conducted annually successful 3 stages: preliminary, main and interview.
