Bihar Shine in IAS
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Bihar Brains Shine in IAS Exam Again
BEGUSARAI/PURNIA/AURANGABAD: Bihar brains have once again made it to the Union Civil Services aspirants — with a bang.
Begusarai boasts of having two sons of the soil in the elite club of top 50 successful IAS aspirants this year. While Rajiv Roshan, a native of Gaura village under Teghra subdivision, has secured 23rd rank, Shambhu Kumar of Sihma village is placed 47th.
What adds to the pride of Bihar is the fact that Rajiv did his schooling and college in his native district and, thus, breaks the myth that a Bihari has to move to a reputed institute outside the state if he aspires to score high in the toughest all-India test for the coveted job. He cracked the exam in his first attempt.
“If you possess the willpower, so-called obstacles like rural educational background are trivia,” Rajiv, an ancient Indian history graduate from RBS College situated at Teyai under Teghra subdivision, told TOI on Friday.
Currently working for the customs at Mumbai, Rajiv earlier served the CISF as a sub-inspector. His father, Tridev Narayan Choudhary, is a farmer and mother a retired government teacher.
Shambhu, whose father Valmiki Singh is also a farmer, is an IIT engineering graduate and had made to the Indian Forest Service before script-ing his new success story.
Meenu Thakur of Udaynagar village in Purnia's Srinagar block shines at 89th rank. Her father Shyamanand Thakur, who worked as a school-teacher to feed his wife, four daughters and a son, would never let his modest financial status come in the way of Meenu's studies. The family lives in a two-room house and Shyamanand rides a ramshackle bicycle.
Meenu actually dreamt of becoming an IITian. But she bowed to the wishes of her father who wanted her to join the civil services. After pass-ing out of Garhariya middle school, she studied at a Navodaya Vidyalaya and did her graduation in history from Purnia Women's College in 2003. She scored 69% in her MA and is currently doing research for her Phd from Patna University.
Animesh Parashar of remote Nawadih village under Obra block in Au-rangabad district has secured 30th rank. Son of schoolteacher Madhesh-war Prasad Singh, Parashar did his schooling from Rajarshi Vidya Mandir and plus two from Sinha College in Aurangabad. He cracked JEE and studied at IIT-Kharagpur. Though he had made it to Indian Forest Service, he wrote the civil services exam and came out with flying colours, albeit in last attempt.
“I am the happiest mother on the earth,” an elated Rajwari Devi, Parashar's mother, told TOI over phone on Friday.
Begusarai boasts of having two sons of the soil in the elite club of top 50 successful IAS aspirants this year. While Rajiv Roshan, a native of Gaura village under Teghra subdivision, has secured 23rd rank, Shambhu Kumar of Sihma village is placed 47th.
What adds to the pride of Bihar is the fact that Rajiv did his schooling and college in his native district and, thus, breaks the myth that a Bihari has to move to a reputed institute outside the state if he aspires to score high in the toughest all-India test for the coveted job. He cracked the exam in his first attempt.
“If you possess the willpower, so-called obstacles like rural educational background are trivia,” Rajiv, an ancient Indian history graduate from RBS College situated at Teyai under Teghra subdivision, told TOI on Friday.
Currently working for the customs at Mumbai, Rajiv earlier served the CISF as a sub-inspector. His father, Tridev Narayan Choudhary, is a farmer and mother a retired government teacher.
Shambhu, whose father Valmiki Singh is also a farmer, is an IIT engineering graduate and had made to the Indian Forest Service before script-ing his new success story.
Meenu Thakur of Udaynagar village in Purnia's Srinagar block shines at 89th rank. Her father Shyamanand Thakur, who worked as a school-teacher to feed his wife, four daughters and a son, would never let his modest financial status come in the way of Meenu's studies. The family lives in a two-room house and Shyamanand rides a ramshackle bicycle.
Meenu actually dreamt of becoming an IITian. But she bowed to the wishes of her father who wanted her to join the civil services. After pass-ing out of Garhariya middle school, she studied at a Navodaya Vidyalaya and did her graduation in history from Purnia Women's College in 2003. She scored 69% in her MA and is currently doing research for her Phd from Patna University.
Animesh Parashar of remote Nawadih village under Obra block in Au-rangabad district has secured 30th rank. Son of schoolteacher Madhesh-war Prasad Singh, Parashar did his schooling from Rajarshi Vidya Mandir and plus two from Sinha College in Aurangabad. He cracked JEE and studied at IIT-Kharagpur. Though he had made it to Indian Forest Service, he wrote the civil services exam and came out with flying colours, albeit in last attempt.
“I am the happiest mother on the earth,” an elated Rajwari Devi, Parashar's mother, told TOI over phone on Friday.
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