Terming as ‘retrogade’ and ‘highly discriminatory’ the recent Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) notification on regional langauges, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday said they appeared ‘to be calculated to bias the system against Civil Service aspirants from non-Hindi speaking regions’.
In a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said the four major changes announced by UPSC would ‘adversely affect’ the interests of students from Tamil Nadu, particularly those from rural backgrounds.
‘I apprehend that these retrograde changes brought in by the UPSC without adequate consultation with state governments are undemocratic and unilateral and will have the effect of unfairly denying the youth of Tamil Nadu their fair chance of representation in the Civil Services, and ultimately, hamper the governance of the country.
‘I urge you to intervene in the matter and prevail on the UPSC to reconsider these invidious, unfair and discriminatory changes made in the scheme of the Civil Services Examination, she said.
In a strongly-worded letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, she said the four major changes announced by UPSC would ‘adversely affect’ the interests of students from Tamil Nadu, particularly those from rural backgrounds.
‘I apprehend that these retrograde changes brought in by the UPSC without adequate consultation with state governments are undemocratic and unilateral and will have the effect of unfairly denying the youth of Tamil Nadu their fair chance of representation in the Civil Services, and ultimately, hamper the governance of the country.
‘I urge you to intervene in the matter and prevail on the UPSC to reconsider these invidious, unfair and discriminatory changes made in the scheme of the Civil Services Examination, she said.