Mr D.P. Agarwal,Chairman,UPSC Visited NACEN,Faridabad

Mr D.P. Agarwal,Chairman,UPSC visited NACEN this week....His topic of discussion was 'Values and Ethics for today's Administrator'....His speech was laden with rich content with numerous examples. Usually,Civil service aspirants have very pejorative view about him,but after listening to him,I hope that perception will definitely fade away....He is a very skilled person with multidimensional knowledge...this may be the reason about his strict interview schedule in UPSC....He elaborately detailed about the equality of all the services as well as the challenges and opportunities lying ahead in front of all of us....He started his lecture with the statement that You [ the probationers at NACEN] are already in prized community because you are able to make your position among 3.5 lakh candidates applied for CSE-2007.....He gave statistics about CSE-2009 where 4.36 lakh candidates have applied for the exam for nearly 800 seats.....We enjoyed his lecture.....later on he made a tour of the campus and was impressed about the facilities available at NACEN......Though We were ready to bulldoze him with the plethora of questions regarding the functioning of UPSC and the existing anomalies in the selection process,answer evaluation,etc in UPSC but unfortunately He did not give a chance to anybody to raise any question on this topic in the anticipation [probably] of the general mood of civil service aspirants and underlying darker side of UPSC. He finished his lecture with a note that currently He is replying numerous RTI application filled by aspirants but after 16 months of training we [the probationers] have to reply RTI applications filed in their offices which is not going to be an easier task.