‘Kerala’s unimpressive show in UPSC exam due to low standards of higher education, poor English skills’
The Hindu
At the all-India level, less than seven aspirants from Kerala figured in the top 100 in the 2020 examination.
Multiple factors, including low standards of higher education in Kerala and poor English skills, have been contributing to the underperformance of candidates from the State in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) civil services examination.
At the all-India level, less than seven aspirants from Kerala have figured in the top 100 in the 2020 examination. The results, which were declared last week, showed that only 40 out of the 761 candidates have been recommended for appointment to IAS, IFS, IPS and Central Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’.
Former Ambassador and author T.P. Sreenivasan said that the main challenge of candidates from Kerala was their poor English, written and spoken. “Those who live outside Kerala and those in medical and engineering colleges do better because they have better English language skills,” he said.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.