And again, women rule the roost in UPSC exam
UPSC Civil Services (Mains) results are out! Third time in a row, the prestigious exam finds a lady topper. And that’s not all. For the first time, toppers in SC/ST categories are also women.
As the Civil Services (Mains) results were declared on May 3 evening, it was discovered that 12 of the top 25 successful candidates in the 2012 Union Public Service Commission exam are all women.
- This year’s topper Haritha V Kumar, is an engineer and is currently undergoing training as an Indian Revenue Service Probationer at the National Academy of Customs Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) at Faridabad. This is her second UPSC attempt.
Making headlines in various national dailies and TV channels, Haritha credits her training at NACEN and the daily discussions and debates with fellow officers for her confidence to face the UPSC interview panel. - The second topper, V Sriram, is from Kerala and who is currently pursuing his MD (first year) at the Sriram Chandra Bhanj Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack. He cleared the exam in second attempt.
- Third topper Stuti Charan is from Jodhpur. She pursued her BSc degree from Jodhpur University and PG Diploma in Personnel and Marketing Management from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), Delhi. Stuti cleared the exam in her third attempt.
- The fourth topper, Alby John Varghese, is also from Kerala. An MBBS graduate, at present Alby is serving at the Kunnukara Primary Health Centre, Kunnukara.
- Ruchika Katyal, the fifth topper, hails from Rohtak and is currently an Arunachal Pradesh Goa Mizoram Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre probationary of Indian Police Service (IPS), 2011-batch. She is undergoing training at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. Ruchika a chartered accountant and has pursued her graduation from SRCC, Delhi. She was also sent as an observer to poll-bound Karnataka.
The next five successful candidates are: Arun Thamburaj A (Tamil Nadu), T Prabhushankar (Tamil Nadu), Vandana, Chandni Singh, and Ashish Gupta.
Unlike management, civil services exam boasts of high percentage of successful women candidates. This year, about one-fourth (245 out of 998) are women.
Total number of selected candidates stand at 998, out of which 457 are in general (including 23 physically challenged) category, 295 in other backward classes (including nine physically challenged), 169 in scheduled castes (including two physically challenged) and 77 in scheduled tribes.
In 2011, Haryana-based Shena Aggarwal, an MBBS from AIIMS, had topped the civil services exam while in 2010, Chennai-based law graduate S Divyadharshini achieved the feat.
This year's result reflects on the pan-India distribution of successful candidates with the top 25 candidates claiming domicile from 12 states and Union Territories – Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh.
Check UPSC results: http://www.upsc.gov.in/exams/final-results/csm/2012/final_result_csm2012.pdf
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