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Pathbreaking Initiative by USTM: BA Administrative
Service for Civil Service Aspirants launched
Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor,
USTM addressing media on launching of 'BA Administrative
Service Course for Civil Service Aspirants' at Guwahti Press
Club today, 4th May. Dr Balendra Kr Das, Director,
Administration, USTM and Sailen Baishya, Director Coaching,
ERDF also addressed the press meet.
GUWAHATI, May 4, 2019:
With a path breaking initiative for the Civil Service
aspirants, the University of Science and Technology
Meghalaya has launched a new course named BA Administrative
Service with an objective to groom students right after
their higher secondary /10+2. After completion of this
3-year degree course, a student will become graduate and at
the same time will be fully comfortable to appear and crack
civil service examination conducted by UPSC without further
preparation. USTM has also opened a ‘Centre for Competitive
Examination and Placement’ and developed a separate library
in this regard.
Addressing a press conference in Guwahati today, Mahbubul
Hoque, Chancellor of USTM who is the architect behind
conceptualizing and introducing this new course stated that
many students set their goal of life to be an IAS, IPS or
state civil service officer. But to appear for such
competitive examinations, they have to complete their
graduation first in any discipline. “There are students who
are graduates in professional courses like medical,
engineering or technical courses but their aim always
remained to be a civil service officer. By the time they
begin preparation for this competitive examination, they
would have already lost few precious years for graduation in
a subject which is not related to administration. In the
process, they only occupy seats of other professional
courses in good institutions which could have been availed
by some other students. So, why not a special course
dedicated to administrative service only, which will groom
the students for such competitive examinations from right
after 10+2? This thought instigated me to form a research
team at USTM to find out the benefits of developing such a
course”, he stated.
Shri Hoque said that guidance for civil services in the
north-eastern region is still lagging behind and for that
reason every year many students from the region go to New
Delhi to take coaching in various centres. “Many students
have to take tuitions and strive to continue their study and
stay in a different city to achieve their goal. Therefore,
we have taken this step to help students so that they can
prepare themselves for graduation as well as civil services
in a way which will relatively save much time and money.”
USTM constituted an expert team comprising academics and
administrators which has done thorough research on how to go
ahead and designed a syllabus with this perspective. The
3-year BA Administrative Service course has six semesters
and students have to appear for six papers in each semester.
The students have to choose one optional subject either from
Sociology, Political Science, History, Geography or
Psychology. The optional subject has two papers while the
four other allied papers will be focusing on areas specified
by the UPSC syllabus. A Review paper will be there for which
the students have to appear from the 2nd semester till the
final semester. The objective of this paper is to revise and
refresh whatever was learnt since the first semester. The
“Today & Tomorrow” paper concentrates on current affairs and
analysis. Eligibility of the course will be 10+2 from any
stream with minimum 70% marks to appear for the entrance
test followed by interview for admission process.
Sailen Baishya, Director, Coaching for Civil Service, ERD
Foundation said that the main objective is to educate the
targeted students making them graduates and at the same time
train them in various need-based allied subjects of
knowledge to make them competent and prepared to face UPSC
and other competitive examinations just after completion of
the said Course. However, if students cannot qualify any
competitive examination, they can still pursue higher
education in their main optional subjects studied during
graduation. The course will be incorporated from the
academic session 2019-20. |
