UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) Declared the results
of the prestigious civil services examination 2014. 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 the top male candidate in the list.
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 IAS (Indian Administrative Service),IFS (Indian Foreign
Service) and IPSC (Indian Police Service), 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.
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