Millennium Post (Kolkata)

CM congratula­tes all who cracked the Civil Services exam

- OUR CORRESPOND­ENT

‘Proud that 7 candidates coached by our

State Government Satyendran­ath Tagore Civil Services Study Centre have cracked the UPSC examinatio­ns'

KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday congratula­ted the seven candidates from the state government’s Satyendran­ath Tagore Civil Services Study Centre (SNTCSSC) for cracking the UPSC 2022 examinatio­ns, the results of which were announced on Tuesday.

“Proud that 7 candidates coached by our State Government Satyendran­ath Tagore Civil Services Study Centre have cracked the UPSC examinatio­ns 2022!! I congratula­te these successful young men and women, and their parents and families. I take pride that our trainees now constitute the overwhelmi­ng share of successful civil services entrants from West Bengal. Proud that the decision that we took about two years back to arrange state training to state aspirants in national competitiv­e examinatio­ns has started yielding results so soon. Bengal Yuva, march ahead!” Banerjee tweeted.

As many as 15 students from the study centre appeared for the personalit­y test of the coveted exam and out of them 7 students made it to the final list.

Chaitanya Khemani from Siliguri secured an all-India rank of 158, topping from Bengal. Ishan Sinha from Kolkata stood 234. Rishabh Singh from Kolkata secured 294th rank. Akanksha Jha from Kolkata secured the 371 rank. Md Burhan Zaman from Kolkata secured the 768th rank. Priyanka Mondal from Pailan, Bishnupur secured the 802 spot and Sourab Das from Chandannag­ar, Hooghly stood 815.

Banerjee also tweeted to congratula­te all who cracked civil services exams 2022 and would soon be part of the prestigiou­s IAS, IPS family. “I am extremely happy that 34 per cent of them are women. I am confident of a brighter and more equal society seeing the first 4 civil ranks are bagged by women. Women have to come forward, they have to lead by example of a value system where catcalling a woman will be discourage­d, where people will think twice before remitting gang rapists, where men will think twice before taking women and our beautiful nation that thrives on principles of equality, for granted. You are our Shakti who would encourage more young girls to fight for their rights, grow up better for a stronger India tomorrow,” she tweeted.

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