The Aitchison Commission (Public Service Commission) was set up in 1886 under the chairmanship of Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison, the lieutenant governor of Punjab, to examine the circumstances under which Indians could be appointed to higher posts in public service previously reserved for Europeans.
[1] The commission made the following recommendations in its report submitted in 1887: The above recommendations were implemented in 1892,[1] and consequently the statutory civil service was abolished.