New Delhi: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today assured a delegation of civil services aspirants that no injustice will be done to them and that he will raise their concerns at all appropriate forums.
The 21-member delegation of aspirants led by NSUI National President Rohit Sharma, General Secretary Mohit Sharma and Delhi State President of NSUI Vikas Chhikara met Rahul at his residence here, said the National Spokesperson of the Congress Youth wing Amrish Ranjan Pandey.
In the hour-long meeting with the Congress Vice President, the aspirants talked about the problems they face in connection with the new exam pattern and the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT).
"Congress is always with the students. No injustice will be allowed to be done to students coming from poor background," Rahul is learnt to have told the aspirants.
Civil services aspirants have been protesting in the national capital and demanding changes in the pattern of preliminary examination, alleging that it does not favor those who come from humanities and Hindi backgrounds. The issue has been raised in Parliament too.
The government has urged them to call off their protest which intensified from Thursday after the UPSC, which conducts the examination, started issuing admit cards to the aspirants for the preliminary exam scheduled to be held next month.
Amid protests against the new exam pattern, the government had yesterday convened a high-level meeting to resolve the issue.
The meeting was chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh and attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh among others.
A decision on whether or not to change the syllabus of Civil Services examination and postpone the preliminary test, slated to be held on August 24th, is likely to be taken soon.
A three-member government appointed committee is looking into the demands of the aspirants to change the pattern of the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) to give
level-playing field to those coming from rural areas.
The 21-member delegation of aspirants led by NSUI National President Rohit Sharma, General Secretary Mohit Sharma and Delhi State President of NSUI Vikas Chhikara met Rahul at his residence here, said the National Spokesperson of the Congress Youth wing Amrish Ranjan Pandey.
In the hour-long meeting with the Congress Vice President, the aspirants talked about the problems they face in connection with the new exam pattern and the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT).
Civil services aspirants have been protesting in the national capital and demanding changes in the pattern of preliminary examination, alleging that it does not favor those who come from humanities and Hindi backgrounds. The issue has been raised in Parliament too.
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Amid protests against the new exam pattern, the government had yesterday convened a high-level meeting to resolve the issue.
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A decision on whether or not to change the syllabus of Civil Services examination and postpone the preliminary test, slated to be held on August 24th, is likely to be taken soon.
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level-playing field to those coming from rural areas.
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