New Delhi: Nearly eight months
after its submission, the report of Baswan committee that suggested
changes in civil service exam pattern and age limit is under
examination, the government has said.
The committee had submitted its report to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on 9 August 2016.
“The Baswan Committee’s report along
with UPSC’s recommendations on it has been received on 20 March 2017 and
the same is under examination,” the department of personnel and
training (DoPT) said in response to an RTI query filed by a PTI correspondent.
Thousands of aspirants appear in the
civil service exam conducted annually by the UPSC in three
stages—preliminary, mains and interview—to select officers for Indian
Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian
Police Service (IPS), among others.
The UPSC had constituted the expert
committee under the chairmanship of former human resource development
secretary and retired IAS officer B.S. Baswan to review the scheme of
civil service examination in August 2015.
The committee is understood to have
recommended reduction in upper age limit of 32 years to appear in the
civil service exam, officials said.
“The recommendations made by the
committee including on pattern of civil service examination and age
limit are presently under consideration of the UPSC,” minister of state
for personnel Jitendra Singh had told Rajya Sabha in a written reply in
November last year.
In a related development, the UPSC has
fixed a seven-day time frame for candidates to report mistakes or
discrepancies in questions asked in the various examinations conducted
by it.
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