Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, Apr 5: Seven Jammu youth among 759 candidates have qualified the Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2018, the final result of which was declared today by the Union Public Services Commi-ssion.
Those from Jammu region, who have made it to the Civil Services, include Rehana Bashir of Salwa Poonch, Abhishek Augustya of village Railway Line Patrick, R S Pura , Sunny Gupta of Rajinder Bazar Jammu, Harvinder Singh of Kotli Mian Fateh, R S Pura, Babar Ali Chagatta from Badder Gulabgarh in Mahore tehsil of Reasi district, Devahuti and Gokul Mahajan from Jammu.
Rehana Bashir of Salwa Poonch is MBBS and she has secured 187th All India Ranking thus going a long way in encouraging all the girls around. Her brother Amir Bashir is in Indian Revenue Services.
AIR of Abhishek Augustya of Kotli Mian Fateh and Sunny Gupta, resident of 152/F, near Taj Hotel, Rajinder Bazar Jammu, is 268 and 320, respectively while Harvinder Singh of Bhour Camp, who is presently serving as Assistant Engineer in PMGSY, Udhampur, has secured 335th ranking. Sunny Gupta is KAS officer of 2018 batch.
Babar Ali Chagatta from remote Badder Gulabgarh in Mahore, who secured 364th rank, did his schooling from JNV Udhampur and graduation from Aligarh Muslim University. Devahuti’s All India Rank is 668th.
According to a statement by the UPSC, a total of 759 candidates (577 men and 182 women) have been recommended by the Commission for appointment to various services like IAS, IPS, IFS etc.
Kanishak Kataria, a B Tech from IIT Bombay, has topped the Civil Services final examination 2018 while Srushti Jayant Deshmukh is the topper among women candidates securing an overall fifth rank. Kataria belongs to SC category and qualified the examination with Mathematics as his optional subject. He is a B Tech (Computer Science and Engineering).
The Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2018 was conducted on June 3, 2018. A total of 10,65,552 candidates applied for this examination, out of which 4,93,972 candidates actually appeared. A total of 10,468 candidates qualified for appearance in the written (Main) examination which was held in September-October, 2018. A total of 1994 candidates qualified for the personality test conducted in February-March, 2019.
The top 25 candidates comprise 15 men and 10 women. The recommended candidates also include 36 persons with benchmark disability (11 orthopedically handicapped; 12 visually challenged, 11 hearing impaired and two multiple disability).
Appointment to the various services will be made according to the number of vacancies available with due consideration to the provisions contained in the rules for the examination. The number of vacancies reported by the Government to be filled is: IAS-180 (including reserved category), IFS-30, IPS-150, Central Services Group ‘A’-384, Group ‘B’ services-68.
Educational qualification-wise the top 25 candidates belong to subjects like Engineering; Sciences; Economics; Law; Mathematics; History; Political Science; Public administration and Commerce graduating from premier Institutions of the country.
Optional subjects of the top 25 candidates in the examination ranged from Anthropology, Chemistry, Commerce & Accountancy, Geography, Law, Maths, History, Political Science & International Relations, Public Administration, Psychology, Sociology and English Literature.
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