Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention in the row between IAS aspirants and the UPSC regarding the pattern of the prestigious exam.
Demanding a review of the exam pattern, Mr. Yadav urged the Prime Minister to sympathetically consider the demand of aspirants belonging to Hindi-speaking States and those who speak other regional languages.
Stating that the Centre should keep in mind the “theory of equality”, Mr. Yadav said: “Large number of students from UP write UPSC examination and their primary language is Hindi. In CSAT (Civil Service Aptitude Test), the question papers made available to aspirants in Hindi and other languages are being translated through a software due to which their actual meaning gets distorted and aspirants get confused,.”
The Chief Minister said Hindi-speaking students who appear for this exam were not happy with the UPSC’s exam pattern as they face many problems. They have been agitating for their demand and the Centre should consider it sympathetically, he urged Mr. Modi.
Significantly, students in Allahabad, Kanpur and Lucknow have also staged protest in support of those demonstrating in Delhi for over a month now.
The Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Janata Dal (United) along with some other political parties had also raised the issue in Parliament a few days back seeking reversal of the IAS exam pattern to pre-2011 by dropping the CSAT question format, which, they claimed, was titled in favour of English-medium students.
