A public interest litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Centre and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to conduct the civil services examinations in all 22 regional languages listed under the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.
The First Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bharatha Chakravarthy on Friday directed the petitioner’s counsel S. Manuraj to serve the case papers on the Central government standing counsel concerned and decided to hear the latter on December 6.
S. Balamurugan, 45, of Madurai had filed the case stating that the question papers for the civil services examinations were being set only in Hindi and English thereby providing an “unfair” advantage to those who know Hindi as against others who were proficient in other regional languages.
