Recently, students, activists, and others went down to Twitter to raise their voices of alleged imposition of Hindi to non-Hindi speakers in the UPSC Civil Service Exam (CSE).
According to UPSC, candidates have the option to write their answers in CSE playing well in English or in one of the eighth language language languages except the paper-a and paper-B package, which they have shown when charging from their online application form for Civil Service Exam (Introduction).
Question papers, in addition to language paper literature, are arranged in Hindi and English for early and main.
“Candidates have the flexibility to choose the media media they like to write answers in the main, but the unavailability of question papers in regional language at the beginning is a serious challenge for non-Hindi students,” said Prassana Kumar, Air 100 at UPSSC 2020.
Safe! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see the resulting students lose the opportunity to clean the test in the first stage because they may not be able to understand the entire question papers from the regional language background, which is quite discriminatory.
There is no point in allowing candidates to write the main CSE in their choice language when the maximum elimination occurs after the predecessor, which is done in English or Hindi, “said Prassana, Indigenous Puducherry, adding that all candidates studied in government-managed schools Facing more challenges compared to students like he studied at CBSE schools or English secondary schools in urban areas.
Prassana, MBBS graduates from Jipmer, previously fulfilled the CSE requirements in 2017.
He did not join because he was not satisfied with the profile offered by the ranking .
He took English to write the exam.
Indian language as a medium for interview
According to the UPSC annual report, in 2018, 1774 candidates who qualified for CSE’s personality tests choose English while 250 chooses to Indian language as a medium for interview.
Among 250 candidates, 204 chose to Hindi, followed by 23 for Marathi, six each for Kannada and Tamil, Lima Gujarati, three Telugu, two Punjabi and one candidate gave an interview in Assam.
In 2017, a total of 2271 candidates chose English while 297 candidates chose Indian language as a medium for interviews.
In 2016, of 2961 candidates who qualified for personality tests, 2582 students chose English while 379 candidates chose Indian language as a medium for interviews.
Takers that can be ignored
At a smaller number of candidates chose Indian language for the interview round, Prassana, said that the unavailability of studies in regional language was the biggest challenge in the preparation process.
“Apart from the area, the majority of CSE dreams use study material in English which can be a reason for the lower number of candidates for Indian for the interview session,” he added.
On the other hand, presenting officers believes that candidates should not see the language as a barrier.
“As part of the IAS professional course in Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNA), the future officers are trained in various subjects to allow them to handle a variety of assignments that they will hold in the first 10 years of their services.
They are also taught regional languages accordingly The situation is allocated to better appreciate the administrative and cultural ethos, “said an official in anonymous condition cleaning CSE in 2013.” There should be no hue and crying on the language of CSE question papers..
If the future officers have no problem studying new languages as part From training, “officially added.
