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New UPSC norms unfair, biased against
non-Hindi aspirants : Jayalalithaa
Wednesday March 13, 2013 09:51:39 PM,
IANS
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Chennai:
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday termed the
changes made by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in the
scheme of civil services exams as "highly discriminatory" and "is
calculated to bias the system against civil services aspirants
from non-Hindi speaking regions".
In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Jayalalithaa termed
the changes as violative of Article 16 of the Constitution (Right
to Equality in public employment) and urged him to "intervene in
the matter and prevail on the UPSC to reconsider these invidious,
unfair and discriminatory changes".
She said the four major changes in the exam pattern adversely
affected interests of students from Tamil Nadu, particularly those
from rural backgrounds.
She said the new norm denied aspirants the chance to write the
exams in Tamil unless they had studied in that medium till
graduation.
"However, there is no such stipulation for candidates who wish to
appear in the Hindi medium. Considering that both Tamil and Hindi
are languages included in the eighth schedule of the constitution,
this discriminates against not just Tamil-speaking candidates, but
against all candidates from non-Hindi states, and in particular
against rural students from SC/STs, BC (backward class) and MBC
(most backward class) and other marginalised sections who would
have had their mother tongue as the medium of instruction up to
school level," she said.
She said the other change that candidates could take literature as
an optional paper only if they have studied the literature of that
language at the graduation level as main subject was illogical and
discriminatory as such stipulation was not there for other
optional subject.
According to Jayalalithaa, the norm that there should be a minimum
of 25 candidates opting for a particular language medium failing
which they would have to write the exam in English and Hindi was
also discriminatory.
"The fourth change is to remove the compulsory qualifying paper in
an Indian language and inclusion of an English composition and
precis writing section as an evaluated portion of the essay paper
instead of the qualifying English paper. This change also clearly
favours urban, English educated candidates and acts against rural
students belonging to disadvantaged sections," she said.
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