Ganesh Prasad Saha has made the Kishanganj and Purnia division proud by cracking India’s premier Civil Services examination conducted by UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) with 373 All India Ranking. The results were declared this past week on Friday by UPSC in which 998 candidates qualify the entrance test for various posts. As soon the people of Kishanganj came across the success news of Ganesh Prasad Saha they felt themselves proud and discussions started in homes and chowk chowrahas. The family members of Saha are on Cloud 9 with his achievement that brought the district in notice of country people. Ganesh Prasad Saha, a resident of Mahavir Marg in Kishanganj district headquarters has cleared the exam under OBC (Other Backward Caste) category.
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| Successful candidates from Bihar |
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| Ganesh Prasad Saha |
Unlike Ganesh Prasad Saha many other students from Bihar have cleared the UPSC amidst the 2012 Civil Service results dominated by South India. Although a number of students from Bihar did manage to qualify, but they were not in the list of top 25. Interestingly, most of the candidates who qualified from Bihar come from the rural and lower middle class background.
Ajit Rai, son of late Brajbhushan Rai and Pramila Devi of Girha village under Rosera block of Samastipur district got 26th rank. Deepa Agrawal of Begusarai, a Geography (Hons) from the local G D College, was among the successful girl candidates who cracked the Civil Services Exam 2012. She was placed 52nd.
Satyendra Kumar, son of Radha Raman Jha and Kamla Rani Jha of Ghat Bhatra village under Bisfi block of Madhubani district got 71st rank. Ajit Basant, son of Yogendra Jha of Madhubani district got 72. Twenty-six year old Ramesh Ranjan of Patna got 76th rank. He did his Electronics and Communications Engineering from NIT Calicut and qualified in the third attempt. Prashant Anand, son of Pramod Kumar Jha, a social activist of Bhagalpur got 176th.
Upendranath Verma of Nawada got 268th rank while Sujit Kumar of Begusarai got 423. Shankaranand Mishra, son of a school teacher, Krishna Narayan Mishra and Meena Mishra, secured 374 rank. He was a gold medalist from IIT Roorkee.
Raj Tilak Roshan of Khagaria got 383th rank. Prabhat Kumar, son of a farmer of Mauna Vishunpur in Vaishali district got 461st position while Prabhakar Prabhat of Bahaur village of Ekangarsarai block of Nalanda district secured 494th position. Bakhtiarpur’s Ashish Kumar got 498th rank while Dayashankar of Patna got 827th rank.
Nilotpal, who got his Mechanical Engineering degree from Bhagalpur Engineering College in 2008 secured 510th rank. Kumar Abhinav and Kamaljit Kamal of Banka district also cracked UPSC. Abhinav is a gold medalist from IIT Kharagpur and secured 207 rank. He is son of Ajay Chakrovarty. Kamaljit who got 666 rank hails from Baunsi block in the same district. He is son of Arjun Sah.
Anand Mohan of Ara in Bhojpur district got 539th rank. He got coaching from Super-12 Interview Guidance, which is being organized by the Banka district magistrate, Dipak Anand. Abhishek Pallav, placed 260, got his post-graduate degree from AIIMS. He is native of Cheria Bariarpur district of Begusarai and is son-in-law of Prof U K Sinha of Patna University.
