The Royal Commission on the Public Service in India

On January 27, 2012, In Reports, By UPSC Blogger

Introduction

A comprehensive examination of India’s Civil Service system was undertaken in 1912 when the British Government in London appointed what was called the Royal Commission on the Public Services in India Competitive examination for public recruitment. This was introduced in India in 1854 giving birth to a new Civil Service in the country. The patronage-based Civil Service was replaced by merit-based recruitment. There was thus no fresh addition to Haileyburians (as they were called) and thus both the streams co-existed: – The Haileyburians and the ‘Competition Wallas’ until the last Haileyburian retired from the service. The Royal Commission on the Public Services in India was set up in 1912 to examine the methods of recruitment to the Indian Civil Service and other Civil Service, imperial and provincial and conditions of service, salary, leave and pension. The Royal Commission was also to look into the employment of Indians in the Civil Service. The Royal Commission comprised of 12 members including the Chairman John Poynder, Baron Islington. Nine members including its Chairman were British while the remaining three were Indian. The Indian members were Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Mahadev Chaubal and Abdur Rahim. The Report is in twenty volumes. Volume one contains main report, volume two to volume nine contain the evidence relating to the Indian and provincial Civil Service taken in India in each of the nine provides in which made up British India and great Britain volumes XII to XX contain the evidence taken in regard to other service and department. The evidence in volume II to XI record processes accepted for the remaining volumes.

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The Government’s of India Clerks’ Salaries Committee

On January 27, 2012, In Reports, By UPSC Blogger

Introduction

Discontentment on the part of personnel in an organization is gravely injurious to its image and productivity. To this end conscious efforts are made to monitor and redress the employee grievances. The Government of India has shown its concern for this problem by the appointment of Pay Commission from time to time.

Summary

The Government of India appointed, in July 1908, a Committee, to investigate the complaints of the clerical personnel working in the secretariat to find out if the prevalent scales of pay were found insufficient to attract and retain man possessing the requisite qualifications and to suggest suitable measures for remedying the position. This Committee, known as the Government of India Clerks’ Salaries Committee, had as its members J.S. Meston, G.B.H. Fell, H. Hudson, H.N. Heseltine, Sarat Chandra Banerjee, Maula Bakhsh and C.W. Caston, the first named being its Chairman. The Committee submitted its report in December of the same year.

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Important articles in newspapers from November 2011: UPSC General studies

On January 27, 2012, In General Studies, By UPSC Blogger

Students are indexing a list of newspaper articles important for the upsc general studies examination and essay on a site. You can follow this link if interested.

Important Articles n news-items,from Nov 2011

*Kanti Bajpai’s article In Times of India dated 12/11/2011 on Economic aspects of tourism and problems faced by Indian tourismhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Where-are-all-the-visitors/articleshow/10695202.cms
other tourism related links-
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_India
*types–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism#Recent_developments
Add to them spiritual tourism etc.
*http://www.ilfsindia.com/downloads/bus_concept/Tourism.pdf
*theme parks news
http://business-standard.com/india/news/ministry-plans-30-40-tourism-theme-parks-says-sahay/455041/

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A very useful online thread for upsc knowledge and timepass

On January 27, 2012, In Miscellaneous, By UPSC Blogger

There is a thread on a social networking site which is named the ‘bakwaas thread’ but it has a lot of info about the upsc exam apart from jokes and humour and timepass. You can check it if interested.

ratri ke is antim pahar mein aapka swagat hai …
sach hai bhai bilkul sach hai अंदाज तो UPSC ने चुरा लिए हैं ..ख्वाब तो जिंदगी ने छुपा लिए हैं तमन्नाएँ मुस्ताफिल हो गयी उनकी ..चेहरे जिन्होंने सजा लिए हैं

 

तुम्हें दारु लेने जाना ही पड़ेगा ..उनको तुम्हारे सपनो में आना ही पड़ेगा ..साली नमकीन पड़े पड़े सड़ गयी अलमारी में ..आज लगता है नामुराद को खाना ही पड़ेगा
wah wah irsad irsad !!! :)
btw Delhi me iti thand h, kaha jaoge…….aaj yado ko nasha bnake daru bhula do

 

नशे में रहना माना कि शराफत नहीं ..पर न रहूँ ऐसी मेरी आदत नहीं ..तेरी आँखों से पीना छोड़ दूं इस घडी ..गर कोई कह दे कि तू क़यामत नहीं ..कि तू क़यामत नहीं 
jo bhi bolo altaaf raja best hai ..
pehle to kabhi kabhi gam tha ab to har pal hi teri yaad satati hai ab to har pal hi teri yaad rulati hai

सही आदमी बन के भी हासिल क्या होगा ..मर चूका है वो अब कातिल क्या होगा ?

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Online group for upsc interview preparation

On January 27, 2012, In Miscellaneous, By UPSC Blogger

UPSC aspirants have come up with a Google group for upsc interview preparation and it could be helpful for preparation.

after a lull of two months -Nov and December, it’s time for action. We have 2 and half months left for interviews , if things go as they did last year. I have the nice experience of being in the google group for mains preparation and want to replicate the same for interview too. So Anyone  who is expecting a mains call and willing to contribute can join the group. What  is the plan : we need to cover1.all current affairs from December  2011 to March 20122.  hobbies- we will collect database of qns for hobbies of each member, like if only one person is having hobby related to kabaddi, then others will pour with their questions. 3. qns related to home state and cities4. Graduation subjects-  Engg/Science etc. 5.  Focus on International relations 6. discussion on major national events 7.  Famous books and themes    

Don’t know how genuine it is: do see this thread for more. Don’t reveal your mail id easily to others is all we can suggest.

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On Salman Rushdie, Fundamntalism, banning books

On January 27, 2012, In General Studies, By UPSC Blogger

Check this discussion if you are  a civils aspirant and want to know more on Salaman Rushdie recent issue, banning of books etc. it could be helpful for your essay and GS preparation.

What did Salman Rushdie wrote about Islam??

I dont know. Ignorant.
But I am sure that 99% people opposing are also ignorant.
Only God knows when will Islamic society will come out of the slavery of ultra-conservative Maulla/Maulvi/Clerics.
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If somebody knows; pls tell.

Jan 21 (6 days ago)

@ BROTHERHOOD  bro d prob is not wid islamic society….look at what d hindu society did 2 M.F.Hussain….all societies can b dogmatic…d issue here is artistic freedom vs literary censorship…..very recently ( 2- 3 mths ago)  dere was a heatedd controversy whn oxford publications stopped printing AK Ramanujan’s essay on Ramayana. Ramanujan’s essay is a secular approach 2wrds d interpretation of Ramayana…but apparently many sections of ppl r not ok wid it….so d question is where is d dividing line n how far can creativity b allowed 2 go ….

Jan 22 (5 days ago)

In a TV debate, one spokesperson of Samajwadi Party, who proudly claimed that he along with Kushwant Singh were the first to recommend the book be banned in India, claimed the book used the f word and other abuses on the Prophet(peace be upon his name!)

Jan 22 (5 days ago)

india was d 1st country in d world  2 ban Satanic Verses ….literary cansorship is a sensitive issue but sumtimes it becomes unreasonable….take for example movies…d movie Khap was banned in Haryana…now dont u think dis movie was a must watch fr sum khap leaders n deir blind followers …so ironically  haryana needed  more dan any other state what it put a ban upon

Jan 22 (5 days ago)

last year Rohinton Mistry’s book Such a Long Journey was removed frm Bombay University’s sylabus cos it contained sum negative comments on Shiv Sena….so lots of crazy things have been happening in d field of censorship…i feel very strongly abt it…

Jan 22 (5 days ago)

Wikipedia is so helpful :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_Verses (abt Satanic verses)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses (Salman Rushdie’s fourth novel)

Jan 22 (5 days ago) I have read satanic verses. available online freely. nothing derogatory in there.hussain  is definitely different matter(he was wrong that is why he apologised.hindus should have forgiven him). Salman is good writer and most of those people who oppose him have not read him. Those who have read do not object.

Having a discriminatory law in 21st century speaks a lot about hypocrisy , even if it is revoked later.
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India and West are different , if they consider right to use abusive or obscene language as a part Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression then its their problem…….we don’t need to follow whatever they do
Our stand is that we won’t allow allow abusive language and obscene content….
Stretching liberty to extreme will lead to anarchy
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What you consider as a "Simple Point" , is considered to as an invalid argument by the Judiciary.
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As I said earlier to Brotherhood, if you have a strong logical argument then please go to Supreme Court and ask them to change interpretation of the term "Secularism" by what you suggest….
Such arguments in past have been completely rejected in toto , by the Court
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You mentioned Ramanujam’s case , the case is an example of Hypocrisy of "super-intellectual" liberals of DU,
Students also have a liberty not to be forced to study any text which hurts their sentiment….. If someone wants to read Ramanujam’s essay at his home he is free to do so , but "super-intellectual" want students to be forced to read , even when it is controversial ….. there are many other better and non-controversial things which could be made a part History syllabus

 

 

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The Royal Commission upon Decentralization

On January 20, 2012, In Reports, By UPSC Blogger

Introduction

In India the Provinces came into existence first and the Central Government came much later. What was then known as the Supreme Government could emerge only under the Regulating Act of 1773. Following the transfer of power of governance from the East India Company to the Crown in 1858, the power and functions of the Central Government in India began to expand steadily making the provinces more and more dependent on it. Governmental administration was becoming growingly centralized. Centralisation touched new heights under Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India during 1894-1904 and 1904-05. Departments after department, service after service was over-hauled. Principles were executed and standards were set causing excessive concentration of authority in the hands of Central Government. The Central Government had imposed detailed financial and administrative restrictions on the provinces, which fettered them in their plans of individual development. As a result, administrative behaviour got marked by loss of touch between officials and the people.

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The Public Service Commission

On January 20, 2012, In Reports, By UPSC Blogger

 

Introduction

In 1858 Queen Victoria assured equality of opportunity to Indians in the matter of public employment. English had already been made India’s official language and arrangements for its teaching initiated. Educated Indians were in search for jobs. Yet no Indian could enter the country’s higher Civil Service till 1884 despite Queen Victoria’s solemn proclamation, which naturally aroused discontentment among Indians. To redress the accumulating grievances, the Government of India set up the Public Service Commission in 1886 under the ‘president ship’ of Sir Charles Aitchison.

Summary

The Aitchison Commission – as it was known – was charged with the responsibility ‘to devise a scheme which may reasonably be hoped to possess the necessary elements of finality and to do full justice to the claims of natives of India to higher and more extensive employment in the public service.’ The Commission was mandated to direct its attention mainly to the question of the conditions under which the natives of India should be employed in the posts which are ordinarily reserved for the covenanted service and to questions relating to the admission of natives of India and Europeans respectively to those branches of the un-covenanted service, which are directly engaged in the executive and judicial administration of the country.

Besides the President, the Aitchison Commission consisted of fifteen members and a Secretary. The Indian members were Romesh Chunder Mitter, (Raja) Udhai Pertap Singh, Sayyid Ahmad, Kazi Shahbuddin, Salem Ramaswami Mudaliyar and Krishnaji Lukshaman Nulkar. The Commission included a trained English lawyer of judicial experience, five members (excluding the President) of the covenanted Civil Service. Their personal experience of the actual working of district administration had been sufficiently varied and extensive to entitle them to speak with authority upon the subject matter of the inquiry for their own provinces. There was a representative of the non-official European and the Eurasian community respectively, a member of the un-covenanted Civil Service, and six national members selected from various provinces. Its large membership was deliberately designed to make it representative of the society at large. It included members belonging to various communities– Hindus, Muslims, Europeans and Eurasians; it provided representation to the un-covenanted service as well as to different classes and modes of thought in India the over all motive being to command the maximum confidence of the society.

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The Fifth Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on The Affairs of the East India Company

On January 20, 2012, In Reports, By UPSC Blogger

Introduction

The East India Company, established in the year 1600 for the purpose of trade in India, found itself in the role of an administrator or ruler in 1765 when it acquired the Diwani (that is the right of revenue administration) from the then reigning Mughal Emperor Shah Alam.

The East India Company discovered itself into a new role which the British Parliament (The House of Commons) set up its Select Committee to examine along with the revenue administration in ‘our India possessions’. The first four reports prepared by the Select Committee discussed the various establishments created by the East India Company for the internal administration of India offering some account of the nature and history of those establishments and of the circumstances under which they grew to their present scale. These establishments were divided into four departments Political, Military, Revenue and Judicial. The Fifth Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East India Company submitted on 28 July, 1812 is exclusively devoted to the establishments directly concerned with the revenue and judicial departments. The authorship of the Fifth Report is attributed to Samuel Davis and Officer of Engineers and who in 1784 had accompanied Turner on the latter’s Mission to Tibet as far as Bhutan .

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Discussion on scaling in UPSC

On January 10, 2012, In Must Read, By UPSC Blogger

Be assured, UPSC does scaling in the Civil services examination.

There is this extract from a discussion; you can follow the link at bottom for more.

 

NO SCALING IS DONE BY UPSC IN MAINS

Refer to this case in Delhi High Court. Prashant Ramesh Chakkarwar vs Union Public Service Commission & … on 5 October, 2010.
26. From a cumulative reading of the aforesaid decisions, the factual/legal position which emerges can be summarized as under:-
I Moderation and scaling of marks are two different techniques used by examining authorities for achieving common standard of assessment of marks.
II UPSC does not apply the method of scaling of marks in evaluating the answer-sheets of the candidates pertaining to Civil Services (Main) Examination and confines the application of the said method in evaluation of answer-sheets of the candidates pertaining to Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination.
III The method of moderation of marks propounded by Supreme Court in Sanjay Singh‟s case (supra) is similar to the W.P.(C) No.6586/2010 & Conn. Matters Page 38 of 43 one applied by UPSC in evaluating the answer-sheets of the candidates pertaining to Civil Services (Main) Examination.
IV The method of moderation of marks applied by UPSC in evaluating the answer-sheets of the candidates pertaining to Civil Services (Main) Examination has been approved by a learned Single Judge and a Division Bench of this Court.

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