Aitchison Commission
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The Aitchison Commission (Public Service Commission) was set up in 1886 under the chairmanship of Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison
to come up with a scheme for fulfilling the claims of Indians to higher and more extensive employment in public service
. It made the following recommendations in its report submitted in 1887:
The above recommendations were implemented and consequently the statutory civil service was abolished in 1892.
Charles Umpherston Aitchison
Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison , was a Scottish born Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, then a province of British India. He founded Aitchison College, Lahore in 1886. He served as Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma from March 1878 to May 1880...
to come up with a scheme for fulfilling the claims of Indians to higher and more extensive employment in public service
Civil service
The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....
. It made the following recommendations in its report submitted in 1887:
- The two-tier classification of civil services into covenanted and uncovenanted should be replaced by a three-tier classification-Imperial, provincial and subordinate civil services.
- The maximum age for entry into civil services should be 23 years.
- The statutory civil service system of recruitment should be abolished.
- The competitive exam should not be held simultaneously in EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world... - Certain percentage of posts in the imperial civil service should be filled by promotion of the members of provincial civil service.
The above recommendations were implemented and consequently the statutory civil service was abolished in 1892.