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Q. Consider the following recommendations of the Aitchison Committee:
  1. Maximum age of entry into the civil service was fixed at 23.
  2. Simultaneous examinations in England and India should be stopped.
  3. Two-tier classification of Civil Service would be replaced by a three-tier classification.
  4. Statutory Civil Service should be abolished.
Which of the above recommendations were made by the Aitchison Committee?
Answer: 1, 2, 3 and 4
Notes: The Aitchison Committee (1886) recommended fixing the maximum age of entry at 23, abolishing the Statutory Civil Service, ending simultaneous examinations in England and India, and replacing the covenanted and uncovenanted system with a three-tier civil service structure (Imperial, provincial, subordinate). Thus, all the listed statements are correct.
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