The Kerala Public Service Commission (Kerala PSC) on Monday decided to postpone all the examinations falling in April 2021. Kerala PSC has also said that they have postponed the exams and interviews for the month of May 2021 as well. The revised dates of all the exams will be released soon. Not just the Kerala PSC, but the UPSC has also postponed the IES/ISS 2020 interviews however, the UPSC NDA was conducted on April 18, 2021.
Kerala SSC is also conducting the CHSL exam which started on April 12 and will end on April 27, 2021. All the decisions were taken after considering the sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the State over the past few days.
The PSC had organised the second phase of examinations for posts with higher secondary as the minimum qualification. Across the State, more than 2.25 lakh aspirants appeared for the examination in around 1100 examination centres. The first phase of the examination was held the previous week. The next big examination for the PSC will be the one for graduate-level posts to be held in the latter half of next month.
Kerala PSC conducts various state-level recruitment exams to select candidates for civil service jobs in the state of Kerala. The recruitment is done as per the merits of applicants and the rules of reservation. The KPSC head office is located in Thiruvananthapuram.
