24-year-old Kishtwar girl bags 7th rank in civil services exam
Hailing from Bhaderwah’s Udrana, a remote village 200 km from Jammu, and raised in Kishtwar, Anmol Rathore, last year’s topper of Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Services (JKAS) exams, has secured seventh rank in the UPSC civil services exams, results of which were declared on Tuesday.
An only child, Rathore had topped the JKAS exams last year and was currently undergoing administrative training.
“I did my primary schooling from Kishtwar’s New Era Public School before shifting to Jammu along with my parents from where I did my senior secondary school. Thereafter, in 2021 I graduated from Gujarat National Law University in Gandhinagar,” Rathore said.
“Since 2021 I have been preparing for the civil services. In fact, I made my first attempt in 2021 itself. Though I wasn’t prepared, I decided to give it a try. In the first attempt I could not clear my prelims,” she added.
In 2022, she missed the mains cut-off list and subsequent interview by just two marks.
“This was my third attempt. This time around I had decided to give my best and thankfully I did it,” she said.
Preparation for the JKAS exams helped Anmol a lot to crack the UPSC civil services exams. “I never went to any coaching institute in Delhi. I preferred a main test series and relied on free material available online,” she said.
Anmol, daughter of retired bank manager Rajive Rathore and a serving principal in the higher education department, Jyoti Parihar Rathore, said she devoted eight hours of study while preparing for the mains.
However, after getting into administrative training for the JKAS, she could devote only three to four hours while preparing. “I have no siblings and being the only child of my parents I had pressure on me to make my parents proud,” Rathore, whose optional was law, said.
Anantnag youth also clears exam
: An officer serving in Jammu and Kashmir Police, Mohammad Farhan, who hails from south Kashmir’s Anantnag also qualified the exam with nine others from the UT
“My message to youth is that they should follow their passion,” Farhan, who secured 369th rank, said.