Protest Against removal of Arabic, Persian and Pali UPSC
exams
A meeting of writers, poets, lawyers and academicians of the
city was organised under the aegis of Iqbal Academy Allahabad, to protest
against the decision of the authorities of Union Public Service Commission to
remove Arabic, Persian and Pali from its scheme of examinations. The meeting was
chaired by SMA Kazmi, former advocate general UP and conducted by Prof AA Fatmi.
SH Akhtar, general secretary of All India Associations of
Arabic teachers and scholars, while condemning this decision of UPSC, termed it
very unfortunate as by removing these languages from UPSC, weaker section of
minority community will be deprived of the opportunity to serve the nation as
civil servants. MA Qadeer, senior advocate Allahabad High Court said that these
languages were a part of the country and should not be removed fro the UPSC
examinations.
Courtesy: The Times of India