Vijay Garg
Recently a film ‘12th Fail’ came out. This is the story of a lower-middle class youth living in a village in Chambal region becoming an IPS officer, who had failed in 12th due to his inability to copy. It is worth noting that this film is based on his life. Based on this, the filmmaker gets the opportunity to add whatever spice to the film, which will bring tears to the eyes of the audience and force them to applaud. In such a situation, the social concern of any creation Becomes suspicious. For the last few years, the Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission i.e. UPSC for the administrative services considered to be the most prestigious in the country has been in the news a lot. The discussion ranges from the successes achieved by youth from underprivileged backgrounds to UPSC making the Civil Services Examination favorable to a particular section of the society. The good thing is that this examination, which was almost unknown to the people till one and a half to two decades ago, has now reached the people of every village. For the first time in the year 1979By breaking the dominance of English, the doors of Civil Services Examination were opened to other Indian languages. Just before this, every year around thirty thousand youth used to apply for around 600-700 posts.
The number of people sitting in these was around 16-17 thousand. Now the maximum number of posts is around one thousand. About 12 lakh youth apply for this, out of which about five and a half lakh appear in the examination. This is a testament to the democratization of civil services examination. It is a principle of economics that as soon as someone sees a possibility some where comes, he starts preparing the market for himself. Since sufficient number of consumers is the primary condition for the existence of the market, one of its functions is to create new consumers for itself. Today platforms like YouTube are also playing a big role in doing this. The civil servant is being presented in such a glamorous manner, which is beyond the truth. For example, showing a circuit house as the residence of a collector. Even some IAS officers go to Bollywood due to the temptation of becoming celebrities.As members, they are presenting their activities on the internet media. With all this, the market has succeeded in sowing the dream of becoming an IAS in the eyes of the youth. Since the coaching model for engineering and medical entrance exams already existed, there was not much need to think of a format for preparing for the IAS exam. Gradually coaching centers started coming up at various places. From the format of big companies to small tuition type institutes, we found all of them -The efforts made have succeeded in instilling in the minds of the youth that without coaching it is almost impossible for them to overcome the difficulty of this difficult examination. The market weakens the confidence of consumers by telling them in various ways that ‘you will not be able to do this’. To prove himself right, he makes even a simple process extremely complicated. Then presents its solution. 7 At present, the form of preparation for Civil Services Examination has been so mechanized that the youth preparing for the examination goes to coaching centers.Due to this lack he is beginning to find himself extremely helpless. This has not only increased the cut-throat competition to be successful among the youth, but such competition has also started taking place among the coaching institutes.
The race is on to attract the youth to take admission in our institute, come what may, at any cost. As soon as the results of the examination are declared, the tendency of the successful candidates to take credit for their success by calling them students of their locality has made the advertisement quite ridiculous. As a result, a few days ago the central consumer The Protection Authority imposed financial penalty on some coaching institutes for making false claims of making IAS and sent notices to many. Here a simple question arises that when coaching institutes are publishing the names of successful candidates and their big photographs in newspapers and magazines and calling them their students, then why should our youth who have become fresh civil servants object to this? do not do? His silence creates doubt in the mind. As far as I know, 2018 batch topper Kanishk Kataria is the only ace.It was the youth who had directly objected to such advertisements by rejecting them. Such a fascinating illusion of Civil Services Examination has been created in the country, in front of which Vivek has surrendered. The gap between eligibility and qualification has disappeared. Despite trying for years and being far away from success, they are not ready to reconsider their decision in a rational manner. Lines like ‘I will not give up on ‘12th failed’ film’ keep provoking him, but it lasts only for a short time. Its Despite this, the market is at its full strength. And also the enthusiasm of the youth. Now the wait is for a film which can awaken the conscience of the youth and help them in taking right decisions.
Vijay Garg Retired Principal Educational Columnist Malout Punjab