NEW DELHI, Mar 21: Responding to concerns by members of Parliament over some newly notified patterns of Civil Services (Main) exam, the Government today said aspirants will be able to write the exam in any regional language from the eighth schedule of the Constitution.
”A candidate will be allowed to use any one regional language from the eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India or English as the medium of writing the examination as before,”Minister of State for Personnel and Training V Narayanasamy said in a statement in both Houses of Parliament.
This was the system before a March 5 notification of the Union Public Service Commission made English compulsory for candidates taking the Civil Services Main Examination, 2013.
Following uproar in the Lok Sabha over the issue on March 15, the Minister had assured the House that he would look into the matter.
”The Government has reviewed the concerns raised,” he said.
Further, the English component of 100 marks from the essay paper will also be dropped. Status quo ante of two qualifying papers of 300 marks each in any modern Indian language and in English shall be restored, the minister said.
The essay paper will now be of 250 marks, to be written in a medium of the candidate’s choice, the statement said. (UNI)
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