Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to discontinue the practice followed by the UPSC, wherein marks scored by civil services aspirants in English are taken into consideration before arriving at the final tally.
In a letter to the Prime Minister Singh, the chief minister termed as “anti-people and unnecessary” the practice of adding marks scored by UPSC aspirants in English language paper to their grand total in the prelims and main examination results, and demanded that the same be done away with.
“The practice of adding marks obtained in English to grand total of UPSC exam results is not only an attack on the morale of students but also affects future prospects of aspirants from rural and tribal areas and that of aspirants living in urban slums and the urban poor and middle class youths,” the chief minister said.
A copy of the letter was made available to media by the Chief Minister’s Office today.
Chouhan said a number of youths belonging to these sections have made it to the IAS, the IPS, the IFS and other allied services due to their extraordinary talent.
He said these youths could not compete with other aspirants whose English language skills are at par with international standards.
Higher-level English medium schools could not be established in rural and urban areas due to administrative weakness, Chouhan said.
“But innocent youths are being punished for this even when they are not responsible for this, rather they have become victims,” the chief minister said.
Chouhan said it was wrong to assume that 100 marks, earmarked for English, out of total of 2075 marks, do not play significant role in civil services exam.
Keywords: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, civil services exam, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Comments:
the point of view of CM is relevant,our infrastructure for education in rural area is abysmal and decision could be break the moral of rural and semi urban aspirants.many country in world are not english speaking but they are doing well in administration and public services .please do not outweigh a language which is not ever useful to communicate the people who lives in village.majority of people in india lives in village and since independence we try to communicate them and try to solve their problem but yet not be success because we do not want to listen them.they may be dont speak in english but they speak a lot of sense if we have patience to listen them.
yes chief minister view is right(in my view).UPSC is not even give the
right to right in scheduled language in written exam.
i am a doctor by profession and preparing for upsc civil service exams.the recent change in syllabus means add english marks in final marit make me to think again that i compete in this exams or not;because though my graduation in english but i through-out in hindi medium and my english is not up to international level.i feel victim.i spend 2year preparing in this exams and now i feel victim. i waste my time & money both. why they not make hindi language as compulsory after all iys our national language. our constitution says that to promote hindi and this step of upsc is anti-student;anti-constitution. if same trend will go so very near in future we lost & forget our national language.
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