INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

MODERN INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following commissions appointed by the British Government abolished the statutory civil service and recommended a Provincial Civil Service in 1888?
A
Islington Commission
B
Aitchison Commission
C
Royal commission on the Superior Civil Services in India
D
Charles Freer Andrews Commission
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Which of the following commissions appointed by the British Government abolished the statutory civil service and recommended a Provincial Civil Service in 1888? Notes: In the year 1886, Aitchison Commission was appointed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Following Lord Macaulay’s Report of the Select Committee of British Parliament, the concept of a merit based modern Civil Service in India was introduced in 1854.

Detailed explanation-3: -Aitchison Commission (1886) In 1886, Governor-General Lord Dufferin set up the Aitchison Commission led by Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison to recommend changes in civil services. The commission recommended: To abolish the Statutory Civil Service system.

Detailed explanation-4: -1.04 In 2003, the Surinder Nath Committee submitted a comprehensive report to Government of India on the system of performance appraisal, promotion, empanelment and placement for the All India Services and the higher civil services of the Union Government.

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