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Government weighs options on IAS exam imbroglio

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Bearing the double onslaught of agitating civil services aspirants and the opposition parties on the controversy of "lop sided" Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), the government is expected to come out of the imbroglio by early next week.

Sources dealing with the subject said the government is vetting the recommendations of Arvind Verma committee and the possible option could be review of the CSAT-Paper II pattern by reducing the weightage of questions related to English comprehension and a Hindi translation for all other questions.

While a majority of bureaucracy is not in favour of yielding to agitating IAS aspirant's demand to remove or tape down English comprehension questions as it considers them simple enough, the BJP government that scripted its success story riding votes from the Hindi belt may not find it the right political decision.

Though not a right choice, which may set the wrong precedent of buckling under pressure, there is a possibility that the aspirants may be given one more attempt to clear the preliminary exams, sources added.
"Some solution will emerge either on Monday or Tuesday next week," said an official.

The hard-pressed government is running against time as the Civil Services preliminary examinations are due on August 24 and the panel formed to look into the issue has reportedly advised against postponing the exams that are already three months behind schedule. Moreover, the UPSC is also not in favour of postponement of exams any further as it would affect the Indian Forest Service exam.

However, a final view on postponement is yet to be taken by the government, sources added.

Armed with the recommendations of Anil Verma panel, the government went into a huddle soon after bearing the opposition's onslaught and with Rajnath Singh calling a meeting of top officials of DoPT and UPSC.

The opposition that formed a joint front to take on the government's indecisiveness on the issue blamed it for playing with the future of lakhs of aspirants forcing three adjournments in the Rajya Sabha.

The commotion forced union home minister Rajnath Singh to assure the House that the government understands the concerns and is going through the views and recommendations of the Arvind Verma committee to find solution to the vexed issue and would soon apprise the members.

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