MPSC finally issues notification to delay descriptive exam pattern till 2025
There was partial relief a month ago when Chief Minister Eknath Shinde wrote to the commission requesting to delay the implementation of the new exam pattern. But there was no development on it from the commission until Thursday.
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The MPSC announced the latest decision even before the meeting could take place. (Express Photo) The Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) will implement the new exam pattern from the year 2025. The decision comes as a relief to thousands of MPSC aspirants who have been protesting against the earlier plan of implementing the changes from this year. Aspirants had complained of not having adequate time to prepare for the new exam pattern after the change was announced last year.
“Taking into account the law and order situation in the state, considering aspirants’ demands related to the descriptive exam pattern to allow them adequate time to study, it is decided that the revised examination pattern and syllabus will be implemented from the year 2025,” the MPSC tweeted. MPSC aspirants across the state were protesting the implementation of the new exam pattern from this year since its announcement in June 2022. With the changes, the MPSC main exam is now similar to the UPSC exam, its central government equivalent. Candidates had complained that even as it helps them prepare for both civil service exams at a time now, in the initial years it gives a clear advantage to those preparing for the UPSC exam.
राज्यसेवा मुख्य परीक्षेच्या वर्णनात्मक स्वरूपाच्या परीक्षेसंदर्भातील उमेदवारांची मागणी, कायदा व सुव्यवस्थेची निर्माण झालेली परिस्थिती व उमेदवारांना तयारीसाठी द्यावयाचा अतिरिक्त कालावधी विचारात घेऊन सुधारित परीक्षा योजना व अभ्यासक्रम सन २०२५ पासून लागू करण्यात येत आहे.
— Maharashtra Public Service Commission (@mpsc_office) February 23, 2023
Apart from writing multiple letters to the commission requesting to delay the implementation until 2025, the aspirants have held multiple protests in different parts of the state.
There was partial relief a month ago when Chief Minister Eknath Shinde wrote to the commission requesting to delay the implementation of the new exam pattern. But there was no development on it from the commission until Thursday.
The ambiguity had led to another protest in Pune, which has a maximum number of MPSC aspirants. Mahesh Gharbude, from Spardha Pariksha Samanvay Samiti, an association of MPSC aspirants active in Pune, told The Indian Express that the agitation turned into celebration immediately after the announcement. “The decision has put an end to the conundrum of which exam pattern to study,” said Gharbude, adding that there is no opposition to the upcoming changes in exam pattern but that aspirants only wanted more time considering the amount of time spent in preparation for each MPSC attempt.
Welcoming the decision, Shinde said, “Our government had conveyed to the commission that we agree to the agitating students’ demands and had requested it to accept it. We thank the commission for accepting it.”
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who had visited the agitating students in Pune on Tuesday and called Shinde from the protest site, said, “Your agitation has been successful and now start preparing (for examination) with new vigour and enthusiasm.”
Leader of opposition Ajit Pawar said that the decision would help the students and give good officials to the state. Congress chief spokesperson Atul Londhe said, “It was the students’ unity that forced the MPSC to take this decision.”
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