• Aditya Srivastava, a trainee Indian Police Service officer, has topped the Civil Services Examination 2023, results of which were announced on April 16 by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

• Animesh Pradhan, Donuru Ananya Reddy, P.K. Sidharth Ramkumar and Ruhani have secured second, third, fourth and fifth rank, respectively.

• A total of 1,016 candidates — 664 men and 352 women — have qualified in the examination and have been recommended by the UPSC for appointment to various services.

• Three of the top five rank holders — Srivastava, Ramkumar and Ruhani — are IPS trainees and currently undergoing training at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Telangana.

2,855 candidates qualified for the Personality Test

• The Civil Services Examination is conducted annually in three stages — Preliminary, Main and Interview — by the UPSC to select officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) among others.

• The Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2023, was conducted on May 28, 2023. 

• A total of 10,16,850 candidates applied out of which 5,92,141 candidates appeared in the examination.

• As many as 14,624 candidates qualified for the written (main) examination, which was held in September 2023. 

• A total of 2,855 candidates qualified for the Personality Test.

• Of the total 1,016 recommended candidates, 347 are from the general category, 115 are from economically weaker sections, 303 from other backward classes, 165 from Scheduled Castes and 86 from Scheduled Tribes.

• As many as 240 candidates have been put on a reserved list, and the candidature of 355 recommended candidates has been kept provisional.

• The top 25 candidates in the Civil Services 2023 Examination comprise 10 women and 15 men. 

• Of the total recommended candidates, 30 are persons with benchmark disability — 16 orthopedically handicapped, six visually challenged, five hearing impaired and three with multiple disabilities.

The toppers

• Top ranker Srivastava (27), who hails from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, completed his B.Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and also has an M.Tech degree. He had electrical engineering as his optional subject in the UPSC exam. He secured 236th rank in the 2022 exam. 

• Pradhan (24), who lost both his parents in 2015, secured second rank in the exam with sociology as his optional subject. He has a B.Tech in computer science from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela. The resident of Talcher town in Odisha’s Angul district is currently an employee of the Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) refineries division in Delhi.

• Donuru Ananya Reddy, who has a BA (Hons) in geography, from Miranda House, Delhi University, stood third in the UPSC exam with anthropology as her optional subject. Twenty-two-year-old Reddy hails from Mahabubnagar in Telangana.

• Fourth-rank Ramkumar (27) has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the College of Architecture in Thiruvananthapuram. He had anthropology as his optional subject. He is a native of Kochi.

• Ruhani, who has a BA (Hons) in economics from St Stephens College, Delhi University, secured the fifth rank with economics as her optional subject. The 28-year-old Gurugram resident 159th rank in the 2022 examination.

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