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GS History Modern India
Q.

With reference to the Indian Civil Services (ICS) under the British rule, consider the following statements:

1. Cornwallis set up a college at Fort William to train the civil servants.

2. Satyendra Prasad Sinha was the first Indian to qualify the ICS.

3. Aitchison Commission recommended holding simultaneous examinations in India and England to allow more Indians into the civil services posts.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?

Explanation:

All the statements given are incorrect.

Statement 1 is incorrect: Lord Wellesly set the Fort William College for training of the new recruits in 1800. In 1806 Wellesly‘s college was disapproved by the Court of Directors and instead the East India College was set up at Haileybury in England to impart two years‘s training to the recruits.

Statement 2 is incorrect: Satyendra Nath Tagore was the first Indian to qualify the ICS in 1863. Satyendra Prasad Sinha was the first Indian to join the Viceroy‘s Executive Council following the reforms under 1909 Act which provided for the first time the association of Indians with the executive Councils of the Governors and the Viceroy.

Statement 3 is incorrect: In 1886, a Public Service Commission was set up by the government of India under the chairmanship of C. U. Aitchison to examine the conditions under which Indians could be appointed to posts ordinarily reserved for the Europeans. It recommended admission of Indians, subject to their fitness, into the Civil Services but did not favour holding of competitive examination simultaneously in India for this purpose.

Thus, Option D is Correct.

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