The state human rights commission (HRC) today expressed its inability to get the APPSC group-1 examinations cancelled or postponed saying the issue doesn’t come under its purview.

As the state government is going ahead with the conduct of the Group-1 examinations beginning tomorrow as scheduled earlier, some candidates filed a petition in the human rights commission appealing to direct the state government to postpone the examination in view of the on-going mass general strike by the state government employees of the Telangana region. The examinations, being held at Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Warangal, Tirupati and Visakhapatnam, will continue till October 3.

In Hyderabad, the examination will be held at 12 centers and the government has already deployed para military forces at the request of the APPSC to conduct the examination peacefully.

It may be recalled that the state high court also dismissed writ petitions filed by some candidates who sought postponement of the examinations because of the all people’s strike. The Telangana political JAC and other pro-Telangana organizations demanded the postponement of the examinations.