A panel formed to look into various
matters related to civil services examination is understood to have recommended
reduction in upper-age limit of 32 years to appear in the prestigious test to
select IAS and IPS officers among others.
The expert committee was constituted
by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) under the chairmanship of former
Human Resource Development Secretary and retired IAS officer B S Baswan in
August last year.
The panel has submitted its report to
the UPSC recently, official sources said on Friday, without divulging content
of the report.
The Committee has recommended
reduction in the upper-age limit for candidates to appear in the examination,
they said.
The UPSC plans to hold discussions
with the Ministry of Personnel on the panel’s recommendations, the sources
said.
The panel has examined the plan of
examination, number of papers, their structure and duration, marking scheme,
weightage of marks and system of evaluation among others, they said.
The Committee was earlier asked to
submit its report within six months time. But, it was given extension for a
further period of six months, till this month-end.
The civil services examination is
conducted by UPSC annually in three stages - preliminary, main and interview —
to select officers for Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign
Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.
A candidate must have attained the
age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years on the 1st of
August, 2016, as per the latest notification for the exam. The upper-age limit
is further extendable for candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled
Tribe, Other Backward Classes, and those who had ordinarily been domiciled in
Jammu and Kashmir during the period from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 1989.
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