Revision of Civil Services Examination
Union
Public Service Commission has so far constituted following committees for
review of different aspects of Civil Services Examination including the
language issues:-
i)
Kothari Committee
ii)
Satish Chandra Committee
iii)
Y.K. Alagh Committee
iv)
Anandakrishnan Committee
v)Bhattacharya Committee S.K. Khanna Committee
vii)
Nigavekar Committee
viii)
Purushottam Agarwal Committee.
ix)
Baswan Committee.
Except
for the Baswan Committee, which is yet to submit its report, all other
Committees have since submitted their reports and in none of these reports, any
recommendation has been made for revising the Civil Services to set questions
in all the languages listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution.
The Committee
inter-alia recommended that the candidates in the Civil Services Examination
should be allowed to write their papers (other than the Indian language and
English compulsory papers) in any of the languages included in the Eighth
Schedule to the Constitution provided the candidate has had his/her graduation
in that particular language medium for the examination.
However, in view of the
concerns raised in the Parliament, print and electronic media about Civil
Services Examinations Rules, 2013, the said recommendation was not given effect
by the Central Government.
The Central Government has constituted an Expert
Committee under chairmanship of Shri B. S. Baswan, vide Notice dated 12.8.2015
to examine the various issues connected with the Civil Services Examination.
The Committee has been asked to submit its report within 06 months of its
constitution.