'UPSC Is Boring, Too Many Kids Wasting Time¡¯, Says Economist Sanjeev Sanyal
Cracking the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Service Exam and adding the coveted three-letter designation to the name is the dream millions of Indians nurture.
Every year, millions of young Indians spend their days and nights studying to crack one of the toughest competitive exams in the country, but only around a thousand of them make the cut.
UPSC, a dream worth pursuing?
This hasn't stopped a large section of the Indian youth from trying, even if that means sometimes spending years attending coaching classes and preparing for the exam.
But according to Economist Sanjeev Sanyal, it is worth the effort.
UPSC is waste of time
Sanyal, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) is of the opinion that "UPSC is a waste of time".
He made the comments during a conversation with Siddhartha Ahluwalia on his podcast 'The Neon Show'.
According to Sanyal, pursuing UPSC exams should be a choice made only by those genuinely interested in becoming administrators.
Why it doesn't make sense
¡°I think what is happening, thankfully our aspirations are changing. I still think way too many young kids who have so much energy are wasting their time trying to crack the UPSC. I'm not saying you don't want people to take the exam,¡± Sanyal said.
¡°Yes, every country needs a bureaucracy. That's perfectly fine. But I think lakhs of people spending their best years trying to crack an exam, where a tiny number of few thousand people actually [are] going to get in, makes no sense,¡± he added.
What if not UPSC
According to Sanyal if we put the same focus on something else it would be in the best interest of the country.
"If they put the same energy into doing something else, we would be winning more Olympic gold medals, we will see better movies, better doctors, more entrepreneurs, more scientists and so on," he said.
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