AP drops out of top 10 ranks in IAS race
Continuing a trend that began two years ago, Andhra Pradesh bagged a few top ranks in the civil services examination conducted by the UPSC. In the results declared on Friday, the state bagged 25 ranks; K. Shashanka bagg-ed the state’s highest rank at No. 16. Last year, 33 candidates from AP were selec-ted to the civil services, down from 55 in the previous year.
The top ranker this year was Kerala’s Haritha V. Kumar, a probationer of the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) 2011 batch, This was her fourth attempt.
The top positions in the general, ST and SC streams were secured by women candidates. V Sriram, a doctor from Kerala and Stuti Charan of Jharkhand came second and third.
In the state, G. Srijana, daughter of senior IAS officer G. Balaramaiah secured the 44th rank and was selected for the IAS.
Among the rankers this year in the civil services examination conducted by the UPSC is J. Meghanatha Reddy, who secured 55th rank, the son of a farmer in Kadapa district. T.L. Narasimhugari Reddy, who bagged the 101st rank is the son of a police constable in Kadapa district.
The candidates from the state who figure in the final list are as follows:
K. Shashanka (16th rank), Agre Kshipra Suryakanth Rao (29), G. Srijana (44), J. Meghanatha Reddy (55), J. Keerthi (89), Narasimhugari T.L. Reddy (101), S. Ramamoorthy (118) S. Krishna Chaitanya (143), Viswajit Kampati (205), Ramakrishna (257), Alankrutha Attaluri (285), Y. Srikanth Reddy (326), Sindhu Sarma (357), Hari Krishna Reddy (427), R.J. Murali Rao (462), V. Vivekananda Reddy (463), D. Praveen (559), C. Rambabu (658), Sai Krishna Sattaiah Thota (663), Rakshitha K. Murthy (668), Dekka Kishore Babu (703), S. Krishna Aditya (746), K. Krishna Chaitanya (774), Koteswara Rao Nalavath (859) and Kalyan Revella (967).