NEED TO MAINTAIN INTELLECTUAL PROPRIETY OF CIVIL SERVICE COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION !
With extraordinary obsession for ancient shudh bhartiya languages Sanskrit and Hindi, present government has deliberately precipitated a situation,through its student wing ,ABVP,under which a section of Hindi belt students are agitating for scraping even elementary English question paper from the curriculum of forthcoming competitive examination for civil services.The whole 'saga' is more or less for polarization of youth vote bank rather than linguistic convenience.The schedule examination which was due three months earlier,is now due to commence on 24th August.Apparently ,today government finds itself trapped in vicious cycle of its own making and much publicised 'competent governance' is visible nowhere,even after the submission of the findings of Verma committee.It will be very pertinent to point out here that Verma committee has not suggested any changes in existing academic process despite probable pressure from the authority,which matters.
The 'agitating students' are further demanding to withdraw C set from the preliminary examination ,which according to their respective analysis is needy and helpful to engineering and management students only and question paper for main exam to be printed in all other languages besides Hindi and English.Where lies the limit of 'all other languages' ?
Under present circumstances of uncertainty and mismanagement,it is any body's guess whether said examination will commence on due date.The dignity and academic excellence of the exam has been made questionable.It may be bitter pill for one particular section of politicians and their patronized students,yet the fact of the matter is that working knowledge of one most common knowledge is essential for all future civil servants.Even countries like Japan and China have accepted the linguistic significance of English on national and global level.
Since Union Public Service Commission [UPSC] is well established autonomous institution,it is imperative that it should be allowed to work independently in the best and larger interests of civil service probationers and no such measures should be undertaken which not only erode autonomy of UPSC but are counter productive in the long run.It is responsibility of both Government and UPSC to maintain intellectual propriety and dignity of civil service competitive examination.Let us not politicize every issue strictly in accordance to respective political agendas.
With extraordinary obsession for ancient shudh bhartiya languages Sanskrit and Hindi, present government has deliberately precipitated a situation,through its student wing ,ABVP,under which a section of Hindi belt students are agitating for scraping even elementary English question paper from the curriculum of forthcoming competitive examination for civil services.The whole 'saga' is more or less for polarization of youth vote bank rather than linguistic convenience.The schedule examination which was due three months earlier,is now due to commence on 24th August.Apparently ,today government finds itself trapped in vicious cycle of its own making and much publicised 'competent governance' is visible nowhere,even after the submission of the findings of Verma committee.It will be very pertinent to point out here that Verma committee has not suggested any changes in existing academic process despite probable pressure from the authority,which matters.
The 'agitating students' are further demanding to withdraw C set from the preliminary examination ,which according to their respective analysis is needy and helpful to engineering and management students only and question paper for main exam to be printed in all other languages besides Hindi and English.Where lies the limit of 'all other languages' ?
Under present circumstances of uncertainty and mismanagement,it is any body's guess whether said examination will commence on due date.The dignity and academic excellence of the exam has been made questionable.It may be bitter pill for one particular section of politicians and their patronized students,yet the fact of the matter is that working knowledge of one most common knowledge is essential for all future civil servants.Even countries like Japan and China have accepted the linguistic significance of English on national and global level.
Since Union Public Service Commission [UPSC] is well established autonomous institution,it is imperative that it should be allowed to work independently in the best and larger interests of civil service probationers and no such measures should be undertaken which not only erode autonomy of UPSC but are counter productive in the long run.It is responsibility of both Government and UPSC to maintain intellectual propriety and dignity of civil service competitive examination.Let us not politicize every issue strictly in accordance to respective political agendas.
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