new delhi nearly eight months after its submission the report of baswan committee that suggested changes in civil service exam pattern and age limit is under examination the government has saidthe committee had submitted its report to the union public service commission upsc on august 9 2016the baswan committees report along with upscs recommendations on it has been received on march 20 2017 and the same is under examination the department of personnel and training said in response to an rti query filed by a pti correspondentthousands of aspirants appear in the civil service exam conducted annually by the upsc in three stagespreliminary main and interviewto select officers for indian administrative service ias indian foreign service ifs and indian police service ips among othersthe upsc had constituted the expert committee under the chairmanship of former human resource development secretary and retired ias officer b s baswan to review the scheme of civil service examination in august 2015the committee is understood to have recommended a reduction in upper age limit of 32 years to appear in the civil service exam official sources saidthe recommendations made by the committee including on pattern of civil service examination and age limit are presently under consideration of the upsc minister of state for personnel jitendra singh had told rajya sabha in a written reply in november last yearin a related development the upsc has fixed a sevenday time frame for candidates to report mistakes or discrepancies in questions asked in the various examinations conducted by it