The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it has introduced a new aptitude test paper on English in the civil services exam on the suggestion of its experts’ panel.<\/p>\n
A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked the commission to present the panel’s report by Sep 19, the next date of hearing.<\/p>\n
The court’s direction came on a petition challenging the new pattern for English paper in the preliminary examination for civil services.<\/p>\n
The court was informed that the new system had been approved by the government.<\/p>\n
Petitioner Dina Nath Batra said that the new pattern deprived a vast majority of Indians who had studied in Hindi medium or any Indian language’s medium from fairly competing in the exam.<\/p>\n
The public interest litigation (PIL) challenged a new system of the Union Public Service Commission making ‘English Language Comprehension Skills’ a compulsory topic.<\/p>\n
Filing its response, the UPSC said: “The new format of civil services (preliminary) examination is evolved through a process of intense review of the examination system by an expert committee and the new system had been approved by the government.”<\/p>\n
The UPSC sought the dismissal of the petition and said: “The\u00a0scope of judicial review in cases where a policy decision is taken pursuant to the recommendations of an expert committee is limited.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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