Prayagraj: Authorities of Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) have declared the results of the written exam conducted for Combined State Engineering Services (General/Special Recruitment)-2019. A total of 1,284 candidates have been declared successful for the interview round of the recruitment process being held to fill up 627 vacant posts under general recruitment and another 21 posts under special recruitment, informed UPPSC secretary Jagdish.
The results have been made available on the official website of the commission— http://uppsc.up.nic.in/ for the benefit of the candidates, he added. The interviews of the qualified candidates will begin from February 22, he said.
The online application process for the recruitment of assistant engineers against 712 vacant posts of 22 different departments to be undertaken through Combined State Engineering Services (General Recruitment/Special Recruitment) Examination-2019 has kick-started from Monday.
UPPSC had started accepting online applications from aspirants for this recruitment exam from December 30, 2019, with the last date of applications being January 30, 2020, through its official website. A total of 1,37,605 candidates had applied.
However, following the outbreak of the pandemic, the exam could finally be held only on December 13, 2020. For it, the centres were set up at Prayagraj, Agra, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur and Lucknow. However, in the times of Covid-19 pandemic, a mere 41 per cent of the total applicants appeared in the written exam.
In the advertisement for the exam issued in December 2019, a total of 712 posts including 692 general recruitment posts and 20 special recruitment posts reserved for SC/ST and OBC categories were advertised.
The UPPSC in its notification had however made plain that the number of posts against which the recruitments would be made could increase or decrease on request of the state government. As per it, a maximum of 244 posts of assistant engineers was on offer in the irrigation department including 171 posts of Civil engineers and 73 posts of Mechanical engineers.