Expressing concern over the falling number of students from rural background clearing the Civil Services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), the lok Janshakti Party on Saturday sought intervention from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the issue.
lJP Parliamentary Board chairman and lJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan’s son Chirag, in a letter to Modi, said the PM should personally intervene on the issue of UPSC’s Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) so that no injustice is done to the students of Hindi and regional languages.
“If we see the successful candidates of UPSC since 2011, we will find the number of those from urban areas is rising while that from rural areas is on the wane,” Chirag said.
Claiming that CSAT is seen as discriminatory by a large section of UPSC aspirants, Chirag said there are complains of substandard quality of translation which makes it further difficult for the applicants to comprehend and answer the questions.