Farmer’s son bags 8th rank
ALLAHABAD: Allahabad’s Anubhav Singh has made UP proud by bagging all India 8th rank in the prestigious Civil Services Exam-2017, results of which were declared by the Union Public Service Commission on Friday.
Hyderabad’s Anudeep Durishetty topped the exam while Anu Kumari and Sachin Gupta secured the second and third position respectively.
A resident of Daser village of Handia area in Allahabad, Anubhav achieved the impressive rank in his second attempt at the top administrative services exam. Earlier, in 2016 he had secured 683rd rank and had got selected in the Indian Revenue Service (IRS).
However, not satisfied with his performance, Anubhav dropped out of his training and again appeared in the civil services exam this year with a dream of getting selected in the IAS.
Anubhav’s father Dhananjay Singh is a farmer and his mother Sushma Singh is a clerk in a government school. “I did my early schooling from the school in my village and later cleared my high school and intermediate from BBS Intermediate College, Shivkuti. In 2015 I completed my B Tech from IIT-Roorkee in civil Engineering,” said Anubhav.
Anubhav is the younger one among his parent’s two kids.
His elder sister is a B Sc from Allahabad University.
Anubhav, who opted for his favourite subject mathematics for the civil services exam, said that his grandfather Paras Nath Singh was the vice-principal of Sarvajanik Intermediate College, Daser while his great grandfather Ramnath Singh was block pramukh of Dhanupur.
Anubhav gives credit of his success to his parents as well as grandfather who, he says, constantly motivated him to chase his dream.
He said that he put up at his aunt’s house in Shivkuti locality of Allahabad to prepare for the civil services exam.