Govt considering Baswan panel's report on age limit for civil service exams

Nearly eight months after its submission, the report of Baswan committee that suggested changes in civil service exam pattern and age limit is under examination, the government has said. The UPSC had constituted the expert committee under the chairmanship of former human resource development secretary and retired IAS officer B S Baswan, to review the scheme of civil service examination in August 2015. The committee is understood to have recommended reduction in upper age limit of 32 years to appear in the civil service exam, official sources said. "The recommendations made by the committee including on pattern of civil service examination and age limit are presently under consideration of the UPSC," Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh had told Rajya Sabha in a written reply in November last year.