Nashik : The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has turned down the request to make civil services preliminary examination question papers available in Marathi and other Eighth Schedule languages.
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Citing strict administrative protocols and confidentiality requirements, the commission said it cannot accommodate the request at the preliminary stage. This language barrier leads to serious time-management problems — especially in the CSAT — lowering their qualifying scores and contributing to a higher dropout rate among non-Hindi and non-English candidates,” a UPSC aspirant said. The demand was raised by aspirants from Nashik through a formal representation seeking equal access to the national-level exam. Currently, the prelims papers for General Studies Paper I and Paper II (CSAT) are printed only in English and Hindi. “Candidates educated in Marathi and other regional-languages say that, despite having the required subject knowledge, they struggle with complex terminology and long comprehension passages. “This is the reason we requested the UPSC to provide question papers in all regional languages listed in the Eighth Schedule. In our country, language varies distinctly from region to region, let alone states. Experts and aspirant groups are of the view that lack of regional language support at the screening stage creates an uneven playing field for rural and vernacular students right at the entry point of the selection process,” the aspirant added, requesting anonymity. In its official response, the UPSC examination division stated that translating and verifying question papers across all twenty-two regional languages would require engaging a large number of domain experts. “Expanding the panel of experts to such an extent could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and uniform evaluation standard of the examination process. Consequently, the Commission maintains that question paper creation must remain restricted to a minimal expert panel,” the reply from the UPSC stated. The Commission also highlighted that candidates already have the provision to write the civil services main examination answers and take the personal interview in any of the Eighth Schedule languages, including Marathi. Download the TOI App.