

The remaining number of trainees each year had taken the exam in regional languages such as Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, among others.įor example, in the 2019 batch, eight officer trainees had taken their exam in Marathi, three in Tamil, two in Gujarati and one in Telugu. In 2014, of the 284 total officer trainees, the number of candidates who had taken the exam in Hindi was six, while that of English candidates was 272. In 2015, of the 350 trainees, 15 had taken the exam in Hindi and 329 in English. In 2016, of the 377 officer trainees, 13 had written the exam in Hindi, and 350 in English. While the course was compulsory only for the IAS and IFS until last year, the government has now made it mandatory for all new civil service recruits.Īccording to the LBSNAA data examined by ThePrint, in 2018 as well, of the 370 officer trainees who took the course, just eight wrote the civil service exam in Hindi, while 357 took the exam in English. The Foundation Course is an introductory course conducted by LBSNAA for newly-recruited civil servants - Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Foreign Service (IFS), among others. The numbers underscore the oft-made argument that the exam remains inaccessible to a majority of the non-English-speaking aspirants.

Similarly, another candidate KM Priyanka has secured 121st rank.New Delhi: Of the 326 civil servants who took the Foundation Course at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in 2019, just eight had taken their civil services examination in Hindi, while 315 candidates wrote the exam in English. I am ready to take up any of the services," he said. "I do not think coaching is necessary to clear the UPSC examination. Soon after completing his engineering course in 2019, Nishchay started preparing for the exam on his own.
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M Nischay, yet another topper from Mysuru, has secured 130th rank. Interestingly, he did not avail any coaching from a professional institute. Yatish was also coached at the Insights IAS. Hence, I took the exam again in 2020," he said. "During 2019, I got selected for the IPS, but my dream was to join the IAS. Yatish R, an engineer from RV College of Engineering (RVCE), is a native of Kanakapura and has secured the 115th rank.

As many as three candidates featured in the top 300. While it was common all these years to see at least five to six candidates from Karnataka feature in the top 100, this year only one candidate found a place among the first 100 successful candidates.

Read more: 761 candidates clear civil services exam, Shubham Kumar tops: UPSC "My uncle is a retired IAS officer and he is my inspiration," he added. "I have always been interested in foreign diplomacy." He completed M.Sc in 2018 and recently bagged a job in one of the banks. Interestingly, Akshay has decided to choose Foreign Service (IFS) over IAS. There was no hurry or no scope for fear,” Akshay recalled.
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"Instead of stressing myself by reading a lot of books, I decided to stay focused and took all the test series offered by my coaching institute," said Akshay.Īkshay took coaching at the Bengaluru-based Insights IAS academy in Chandra Layout and cleared the exam in his second attempt. Despite studying science, Akshay took Kannada literature as the optional subject in CSE. The results were declared by the UPSC on Friday evening.Īkshay Simha, a 26-year-old banker, has topped in the state by securing 77th rank in the overall list. As many as 26 students from Karnataka have successfully cleared the Civil Services Examination (CSE) conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) for the year 2020.
