SPSC: SOME PASTE, SOME COPY?

Letter:
I am one of the thousands of hopeful aspirants for the upcoming SPSC examination. But what came as a rude shock to me was the syllabus and the pattern of the examination and the format too which has been inspired or rather copied and pasted from UPSC examination 2012.
The entire format of the syllabus for the Prelims and Mains examination has been copied word to word from the UPSC format which not only makes the examination very difficult for us but also shows SPSC in a very poor light. It appears that our much revered SPSC is either too indolent or just incapable of even lifting a finger to prepare its own syllabus!
I and many like me would appreciate it if SPSC prepared the syllabus in accordance with the need and requirement of the bureaucracy and administration of Sikkim. It should be relevant to Sikkim and not to UPSC. I am not saying that the examination has to be Sikkim-centric but I see no reason why a State Public Service examination should be a mirror image of UPSC! Please give us a level playing field!
When I looked up the syllabus of Civil Service examination of some states, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the syllabus is pretty different from UPSC for most subjects though the outline is similar.
Moreover, many of us are already intimidated by the UPSC format that SPSC has adopted. Preparing for the examination will be a daunting task for working professionals who will have to take out time from work and cover the entire syllabus, unless the wannabe Under Secretaries take long leave or bunk office/ work and study for sixteen-seventeen hours a day. Isn’t that (the long hours of studies) what IAS success stories are made of?
Name withheld on request [recvd on email]