NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service
Commission on Saturday declared results of the prestigious civil services
examination.
Ira Singhal has topped the exams.
Four top position holders are women: Ira Singhal, Renu Raj, Nidhi Gupta and
Vandana Rao.
Suharsha Bhagat, at rank 5, is top male candidate in the list.
You can check civil services exam results here
Ira and Nidhi, who hail from Delhi, are Indian Revenue Service (Customs and
Central Excise) officers whereas, Renu Raj is a doctor by profession. She hails
from Kerala.
"I am really very happy. I can't believe this. I just prepared for the
examination," Ira said.
Ira topped the exam in general category despite being physically handicapped.
"I want to be an IAS officer. I want to do something for the benefit of
physically-handicapped people," she said.
Renu Raj got the second rank in her first attempt. "I am extremely happy
to know the result. I have been preparing for the exam for the last one
year," she said from Thiruvananthapuram.
Renu Raj, who works in a hospital in Kollam in Kerala, hails from Kottayam.
Third rank holder Nidhi said it is a proud moment for her to get selected in
the examination. "It is really a proud moment. I put in lot of hard work
and finally it paid," she said. Nidhi is presently assistant commissioner
of customs and central excise.
A total of 1,236 candidates have been recommended
for appointment to IAS, IFS, IPS and central services.
A total of 254 candidates have also been kept in a
consolidated reserved list.
A total of 180 candidates have been recommended to
IAS, with 32 to IFS, 150 to IPS, 710 to Central Services group 'A' and 292 to
group 'B' services. It is the first time that the Commission is
declaring the final results within four days of the closing date for the
personality tests or interviews, a senior official said.
The civil services examination is conducted by the UPSC annually in three
stages — preliminary, mains and interviews — to select candidates for the elite
Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian
Police Service (IPS), among others.
The civil services preliminary examination was conducted on August 24 last year
at 2,137 venues in 59 centres across the country. About 9.45 lakh candidates
had applied for it but approximately 4.51 lakh appeared for the examination.
Of these, 16,933 were declared qualified for the main examination, the official
said. The main examination was held in December last year and, out of the
16,933 candidates, 16,286 appeared for it, an official said.
"The result of civil services main examination was declared on March 13
this year. 3,308 candidates were declared qualified for the personality
test," the official said, adding that out of these, 3,303 appeared for the
personality test, which were held from April 27 to June 30.
"In terms of the number of candidates and number of centres or
sub-centres, this was the biggest examination ever conducted by the
Commission," the official said.
Ira Singhal has topped the exams.
Four top position holders are women: Ira Singhal, Renu Raj, Nidhi Gupta and Vandana Rao.
Suharsha Bhagat, at rank 5, is top male candidate in the list.
You can check civil services exam results here
Ira and Nidhi, who hail from Delhi, are Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) officers whereas, Renu Raj is a doctor by profession. She hails from Kerala.
"I am really very happy. I can't believe this. I just prepared for the examination," Ira said.
Ira topped the exam in general category despite being physically handicapped. "I want to be an IAS officer. I want to do something for the benefit of physically-handicapped people," she said.
Renu Raj got the second rank in her first attempt. "I am extremely happy to know the result. I have been preparing for the exam for the last one year," she said from Thiruvananthapuram.
Renu Raj, who works in a hospital in Kollam in Kerala, hails from Kottayam.
Third rank holder Nidhi said it is a proud moment for her to get selected in the examination. "It is really a proud moment. I put in lot of hard work and finally it paid," she said. Nidhi is presently assistant commissioner of customs and central excise.
A total of 1,236 candidates have been recommended for appointment to IAS, IFS, IPS and central services.
A total of 254 candidates have also been kept in a consolidated reserved list.
A total of 180 candidates have been recommended to IAS, with 32 to IFS, 150 to IPS, 710 to Central Services group 'A' and 292 to group 'B' services. It is the first time that the Commission is declaring the final results within four days of the closing date for the personality tests or interviews, a senior official said.
The civil services examination is conducted by the UPSC annually in three stages — preliminary, mains and interviews — to select candidates for the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.
The civil services preliminary examination was conducted on August 24 last year at 2,137 venues in 59 centres across the country. About 9.45 lakh candidates had applied for it but approximately 4.51 lakh appeared for the examination.
Of these, 16,933 were declared qualified for the main examination, the official said. The main examination was held in December last year and, out of the 16,933 candidates, 16,286 appeared for it, an official said.
"The result of civil services main examination was declared on March 13 this year. 3,308 candidates were declared qualified for the personality test," the official said, adding that out of these, 3,303 appeared for the personality test, which were held from April 27 to June 30.
"In terms of the number of candidates and number of centres or sub-centres, this was the biggest examination ever conducted by the Commission," the official said.
