But if the observations made by my hon. Friend are borne out by facts, it is a matter for serious consideration, if the commission's role should be what it is generally expected to be by the government and the house. It has probably to assume a superior role, if it is to control effectively the policy of recruitment and the standard of efficiency in the services generally. Sir, I shall not go into the question referred to by the hon. Member and we expect the hon. Member to throw more light on the aspects which were brought to the notice of the house. Sir, reference has been made to a fall in standards. It is said that education, in the universities and the educational system generally should improve, and unless that is so, we cannot have the desired personnel to man the services. In that connection, hon. Members have referred to the need to go a step further and say that the whole system of education has to be looked upon as one integrated whole, and unless we strengthen our educational system from the very bottom it is no use our concentrating only on the university stage or the secondary stage. Even from the primary level, education as a whole is in a meeting pot, not with regard to the curriculum alone but also with regard to the medium of education and its objectives. Sir, I would now refer to the question of examinations. Much has been said on whether there should be an oral test and and what its place should be in deciding the merits of applicants. Sir, I feel compelled to say that the viva voce test is very necessary to select proper persons for the services. There is nothing sacrosanct about the written test. It depends, it is true, on the intellectual discipline that a person has gone through but that is not all for judging the merit of a person. The persoanlity of an individual is many sided.
