Wednesday, July 13, 2011

UPSC allows candidates to appear in interview in Languages opted for written exams

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has decided that candidates who opt for an Indian language medium other than Hindi for the written Civil Services exam can now give the interview in the same Indian language, English or Hindi.

The UPSC said in an affidavit submitted in the Bombay High Court that As per the recommendations of an expert committee, even those candidates who give the main exam in English can now choose for the interview English, Hindi or any other Indian language, opted by them for the compulsory Indian language paper in the written part of the test,

The affidavit was submitted in response to a PIL filed by a IAS aspirant .