Metro Stations Shut 'Indefinitely' as UPSC aspirants hold protest

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From NDTV.com

New Delhi: Four metro stations in the heart of Delhi have been closed "indefinitely", the Delhi Police said, as hundreds of students said they want to protest in front of the Prime Minister's residence on Race Course Road.

The stations that have been shut down are Patel Chowk, Central Secretariat, Race Course Road and Udyog Bhawan.

More than 3,000 students are currently holding a demonstration at Civil Lines in north Delhi against the change in pattern of the Civil Services exams - which makes CSAT (Civil Services Aptitude Test) compulsory for those who want to become officers in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and other allied services.

Over 100 students have been detained from Tughlaq Road and Aurangzeb Road in central Delhi when they were protesting near the offices of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), the body that conducts these tests.

woman

They should be preparing. That will be more useful.

F0EHAMMER

I read that they are demanding a 4 yr age relaxation .I wonder whether each time UPSC will give extra attempts for changing its syllabus .

sniper

Last heard they were demanding four extra attempts (4+4) and a consequent age relaxation of six years (30+6). This was for the General Category. You can well imagine what the demand for reserved categories must be like! Other than this they wanted either Paper-2 to be done away with, or made qualifying.

A few of them met Varun Gandhi and Rajnath Singh. The latter allegedly rang up the concerned Minister and a few DoPT officials and asked them that students demand be met. There was this buzz around Mukherjee Nagar that the file was sent to the PM and that the exam notification will be delayed. Nothing happened. A second buzz followed that a new notification will be issued. Again, nothing happened. Hence the protests.

Tikku

Agla station kendriya sachiwalaya darwaje dahine ko nahi khulenge
kubh aisa thha kya

bankai

LOL

Vibin

I was denied MNC's during college time because of my poor aptitude skills . There was another company which I'd cleared the coding skill test but they told me I lacked English communication skills ..

Even I dont have any problem now in dealing with those above , but cant claim to be an expert .. Still I believe I could manage Aptitude & English in CSAT ..

Already age relaxation has been granted .. That was definitely an ethical decision . But what these thugs demand now is an utter scorn to the system ..

Come on .. Get back to your studies .. [-(

mrlobo

i feel the demands this time is unfair..2 extra attempts in view of the changed syllabus is good enough for any candidate to try himself out..and asses himself.
also considering csat process is now 3 years old.. i wonder why the sudden urge to stamp it out has arisen?
in fact a lot of non mba/non engineer people clear bank po,ssc and other exams is a testimony to the fact that csat pattern is not great wall of china..in fact in my opinion it is a lot better than earlier era of mugging up the details of a specific subject..which was handy to subject graduates,book publishers and coaching(subject) experts...

i wonder who drafted the ridiculous dea of 8 attempts for the exam..the guys must have been to manali..

F0EHAMMER

I am from science background and if I am not protesting against the art subjects then whats the ground to protest against aptitude by these candidates.

Why cant they see that if an arts student has to learn and struggle his way through aptitude then similarly a science guy like me has to study Art and Humanities subjects in which they already have experience and knowledge .

Moreover, Basic aptitude and english skills are not much difficult to acquire.Why cant these aspirants work hard and persevere like other candidates rather then demanding undue relaxations and attempts .

woman

I am sure if some of them ever make it to the services, at the age of 60 will do another dharna to relax the age of retirement. Height of idiocy.

mrlobo

@woman..

good idea.. at least i can try it out in my home state...