Expert panel to review civil services exams: Jitendra Singh

The government has constituted an expert committee to revisit the entire pattern, syllabus and eligibility criteria for civil services examination, Union Minister Jitendra Singh has said. The committee consists of leading academicians, technocrats and senior bureaucrats of national repute, he added.

The minister said that based on the report of the committee, further changes in the civil services exam pattern will be contemplated with the “primary objective of providing a level playing field to aspirants from diverse streams of curriculum like mathematics, engineering, medicine or humanities and at the same time, also ensuring that the youngsters who took up IAS as a career possess a genuine aptitude for administrative job”.

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Till such time as the recommendations of the committee are received and the government subsequently takes a decision on them, the minister said, the General Studies Paper-II (CSAT) in the Civil Services Preliminary Examination will remain a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33 per cent.