New Delhi: The government on Tuesday has urged the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to postpone the Civil Services Preliminary Examination till there is clarity on the syllabus and exam pattern.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh said, “We are also urging upon the UPSC and the committee that was constituted to look into the matter that not only report be constituted at the earliest, considering the urgency of the matter and the concern of all sections of the society… They should also consider postponing the date of the preliminary examination.”
Singh said, “Till the report about the final conclusions in the matter is out, these young guys and girls would not be able to make out the kind of preparation they have to do for the exam.”
He also said, “Therefore, till there is a clarity over the syllabus and exam pattern they should be given sufficient time. It is quite legitimate on their part that we are suggesting to concerned authorities to consider postponement of the preliminary examination of IAS (UPSC) exams.”
He said, “We were all deeply concerned when we found our students were resorting to hunger strike. We have succeeded in convincing them. They should not resort to such extreme measures.”
“We would write to the UPSC and the committee that has been constituted to submit this report to expedite the process, address their concerns judiciously and sympathetically and not let them go with a feeling that they have been wronged on account of any bias towards any language. …There should be no injustice regarding the language and government does not support this,” he added.
Notify that ABVP activists had staged protests outside the UPSC office on Monday demanding scrapping of Civil Services Aptitude Tests (CSAT), saying such a pattern was putting Hindi language aspirants at a disadvantage.
Bureau Report
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