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Not genuine

Sir, — Regarding the article on the Parliamentary Standing committee on Home Affairs on the conduct of civil services exams, we are unable to find any genuine reason for debarring IIT and MBBS students from the exams. The basic requirements for such services are intellect and an all-round personality. That crores of rupees is being spent on these students is not the rationale because after all these people will be serving their own country unlike some of their fellow students who go abroad, never to return. If the Government accepts these recommendations it would be violative of Art. 16 (right to equality of opportunity in matters of public employment).

Vishal, Puneet and Vinit,
IIT, Kanpur

Sir— The Government has tasked the UPSC to assess the capability of candidates chosen for the civil services. The IIT graduates will once again come out with flying colours in such an assessment, as they did earlier both while getting into the IIT, as well as getting selected for civil services.

The Government is totally off-target in diagnosing the disease that plagues the IIT graduates.

Subbiah Venkataraman,
Thiruvananthapuram

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