Deoghar boy secures 9th position in UPSC civil services exam

Ranchi/Jamshedpur/Bokaro/Dumka: Ravi Jain of Deoghar secured ninth position in the All India Ranking (AIR) of the UPSC civil services examination , 2019 , the result of which was announced on Tuesday. Over half a dozen candidates from Jharkhand also cracked the examination.

Ravi, a resident of Jain temple road in Deoghar, is currently serving as a sales tax officer at Jamui in Bihar.

His father Ashok Jain is a businessman.

An elated Ravi said, “I had done well but was not expecting such a high rank.” His father said, “After his selection in the Bihar Public Service Commission, Ravi joined service at our insistence but he was still optimistic about cracking the UPSC exam.”

Another Deoghar resident, Tanya Ambasth, secured 237th rank. Tanya’s father is a TTE at the Jasidih railway station. She passed her matriculation from the local institute, St Francis School and studied Plus 2 at Jawahar Vidyalaya Shyamli, Ranchi. Tanya pursued her B Tech degree from BIT Mesra.

Priyank Kishore, son of a police officer Kamal Kishore, also cracked the examination and secured AIR 61. In his first attempt in 2019, Priyank had got 274th rank. His father, Kamal Kishore, who served as a police inspector in Jamshedpur, is currently posted in Hazaribag as deputy superintendent of police.

Moomal Rajpurohit, daughter of an Indian Forest Service officer in Jharkhand, secured the 173rd rank. “I will get an IPS post if not IAS,” Moomal said, stressing that civil services was her childhood dream. “In my previous four attempts, I could not qualify for the interview but they made it very clear where my mistakes or weaknesses were. I kept on improving continuously. This time, I was confident of clearing the examination,” she said.

A gold medallist graduate from Delhi University, Moomal said she prepared for the examination in Delhi, which has the advantage of getting easy access to study materials and provides a competitive environment. “However, students can succeed in the examination while preparing from small towns as well,” she said.

On taking private coachings, she said the classes are useful to get guidelines on how to prepare, but the hard work is ultimately for the students. Moomal said she opted for political science with international relations in the mains examination.

A doctor from Dhanbad also cracked the examination and secured 165th rank. Dr Harsha Privamvada is the daughter of Dhanbad-based eye specialists Dr D Kumar and Dr Rekha Nayak. Dr Kumar said his daughter completed her primary schooling from Saraswati Vidya Mandir Peterwar in Bokaro and when he was transferred to Sindri, Harsha passed her 10th exam from Carmel School, Digwadih. She passed Plus 2 from DPS, Bokaro. After completing her MBBS from PMCH, Patna, she started preparing for the civil services exam and except for joining a three-month condensed course at a coaching institute in Delhi, she prepared for the examination from her Dhanbad home. Anthropology was her subject in the examination, he added.

Abhishek Garg of Pentecostal Public School (PAS) has made his school proud by securing 456th rank in the examination. In a press statement, PAS said Garg called up to thank his principal and teachers who have contributed to his success. “The self-discipline instilled in me in the early years of schooling helped me study 12 to 13 hours regularly,” the statement quoted Garg as saying.

Kumar Satyam from Godda district of Santhal Pargana division also secured 696th position in the UPSC merit list.