New Delhi: The Centre had clarified on Monday that marks of English language skills should not be included in merit. Centre had made this move to end the row over the alleged language bias in Union Public Commission Civil Services Examination.
The structure of the exam was changed in 2011 and since then the aspirants from Humanities and Hindi belt are protesting against it. The change has adversely affected the number of aspirants cracking the exam from Humanities stream and Hindi belt as the numbers have gone down drastically.
Notify that a big protest had been took place in Delhi over the language issue in UPSC exam few days ago.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh said in the Lok Sabha that all the aspirants who appeared for the Civil Services Examination from 2011 would get one more more attempt in 2015. The UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Examination is scheduled for August 24.
The structure of the CSAT (Civil Service Aptitude Test), introduced in the preliminary examination of the Civil Services in 2011, has been the main bone of contention, which aspirants feel is biased towards technical and management students and it should be scrapped.
Now it will remarkable if the aspirants of UPSC welcomes the move of Central Government to end the raw over it.
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