<p>About 150 UPSC aspirants were detained Friday while they were trying to march towards parliament, police said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirants were detained outside the Central Secretariat Metro station in central Delhi Friday.<br /><br />Civil services aspirants have been demanding the scrapping of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), calling it discriminatory for the students from humanities and Hindi backgrounds.<br /><br />"We will continue our protest until we get a written assurance that the examination date will be extended and the CSAT exam will be scrapped," Anurag Chaturvedi, an aspirant, told IANS.<br /><br />He added the students have wasted a lot of time because of the ongoing protests and cannot prepare for the August 20 examination in 25 days.<br /><br />Another aspirant, R.V. Yadav added: "Hindi is our national language and it is being sidelined. Student who know regional language feel handicapped."<br /><br />The protests have intensified since Thursday night with about 500 students still protesting in Mukherjee Nagar of north Delhi Friday.<br /><br />The issue also disrupted proceedings in the Rajya Sabha Friday.</p>
<p>About 150 UPSC aspirants were detained Friday while they were trying to march towards parliament, police said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) aspirants were detained outside the Central Secretariat Metro station in central Delhi Friday.<br /><br />Civil services aspirants have been demanding the scrapping of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT), calling it discriminatory for the students from humanities and Hindi backgrounds.<br /><br />"We will continue our protest until we get a written assurance that the examination date will be extended and the CSAT exam will be scrapped," Anurag Chaturvedi, an aspirant, told IANS.<br /><br />He added the students have wasted a lot of time because of the ongoing protests and cannot prepare for the August 20 examination in 25 days.<br /><br />Another aspirant, R.V. Yadav added: "Hindi is our national language and it is being sidelined. Student who know regional language feel handicapped."<br /><br />The protests have intensified since Thursday night with about 500 students still protesting in Mukherjee Nagar of north Delhi Friday.<br /><br />The issue also disrupted proceedings in the Rajya Sabha Friday.</p>