Government faces heat to change status quo over UPSC row

With the Arvind Verma panel report recommending status quo on the civil services examination pattern and the UPSC opposing a postponement of the Prelims exam at this late stage, the government is in a bind on how to resolve the grievances of aspirants agitating against the aptitude test (CSAT) and its alleged anti-Hindi bias.

According to government sources, not only has the Arvind Verma committee ruled out a review of the CSAT pattern introduced in 2011, it has also rejected the contention that the 8-9 questions relating to English comprehension put Hindi-medium aspirants at a disadvantage. It has backed the babudom's view that the Class X level, objective-type English questions are the least a candidate aspiring for top bureaucracy is expected to understand. The panel is said to have referred to the S K Khanna committee report, based on which CSAT was launched, to underline that much thought and scientific reasoning had gone into the switch to CSAT, and that there is no firm ground to negate it.


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