Due to the recurrent, inequitable, and abrupt changes that were introduced in the Civil Services Exam Pattern, a group of IAS aspirants in their petition necessitated compensatory attempts to be given to them for the ‘excessive hardship’, which they have gone through during the past five years since 2011.
According to the UPSC Civil Services Aspirants in their petition, because of the introduction of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) in 2011, which was continues till 2014, they have lost four precious attempts.
These civil services aspirants demanded a corrigendum by the government by permitting them to appear in the Civil Services Examination, 2018 as the last date of application for UPSC 2017 has already over.
The aspirants also thanked the Government for making the biased CSAT General Studies Paper 2 of UPSC Civil Services Prelims Exam is qualifying in nature in 2015. Also, they added that with the introduction of CSAT in 2011, which continued till 2014, they have lost their valuable attempts. One of the petitions by these civil service aspirants said that the general category candidates get 6 attempts only and they have lost 4 attempts with the introduction of biased CSAT paper in 2011 which continued till 2014.
A humble request was made by these aspirants in their petition that an adequate number of compensatory attempts for CSAT affected aspirants from 2011-2014 would be a temporary relief for them.
They also started showing the data before and after the introduction of CSAT Paper and added that the continuation of CSAT Paper for 4 years put the rural, non-English medium, and Humanities background candidates at a grim difficulty.
Also, demand for allowing the use of mother tongue to write the civil services main exam was raised in the Rajya Sabha on last Wednesday (March 22, 2017), which received all-round support as the exponent called for ‘upholding of linguistic rights’.
Ritabrata Banerjee (CPI-M) said, raising the issue during the Zero Hour that the civil services aptitude paper in English was biased against Hindi and eight other Scheduled Languages, hence the CSAT Paper has been made non-compulsory.
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