Bihar’s Shubham Kumar tops Civil Services Exam

Bihar’s Shubham Kumar and Madhya Pradesh’s Jagrati Awasthi have achieved the first and second ranks respectively in the Civil Services Examination.

A total of 761 candidates — 545 men and 216 women — have cleared the test, conducted annually to select the country’s bureaucrats, diplomats and police officers, among other civil servants.

Shubham Kumar, aged 24 years, topped the Civil Services Examination in his third attempt. He got selected in the Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS) after qualifying the Civil Services Examination 2019. Kumar, who hails from Katihar in Bihar, is currently undergoing training at the National Academy of Defence Financial Management (NADFM), Pune. A Bachelor of Technology (civil engineering) graduate from IIT Bombay, he has qualified the 2020 examination with anthropology as his optional subject.

Second rank holder Jagrati Awasthi hails from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh. Awasthi completed her schooling from Maharishi Vidya Mandir and graduated in electrical engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal. She qualified the examination with sociology as her optional subject.

The Civil Services Examination is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in three stages — preliminary, main and interview — to select officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.

The Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2020 was conducted on October 4 last year.

As many as 10,40,060 candidates applied for the examination, out of whom 4,82,770 appeared in it. A total of 10,564 candidates qualified for appearance in the written (main) examination which was held in January, 2021. 

Of them, 2,053 candidates qualified for the personality test (interview).

Of the successful candidates, 263 are of general category, 86 from economic weaker section (EWS), 220 of Other Backward Class (OBC), 122 Scheduled Castes (SC) and 61 belong to Scheduled Tribes category.

A total of 150 other candidates have been put in the reserve list.

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