From 648th to 9th rank in the civil services examinations conducted by the Union Public Service Commission is no mean an achievement. Bihar's son of the soil Divyanshu Jha did it, and his family members are on cloud nine.
"My son has always been a meritorious student. He represented India in the International Physics Olympiad in 2005 and won a bronze medallion for the country," said a proud B S Jha, father of Divyanshu who was schooled at Don Bosco Academy and St Michael's High School at Patna before moving to IIT-Kanpur from where he did engineering in computer science.
This was Divyanshu's third attempt. He wrote the Mains in 2011, but did not get the interview call. "He was down with dengue just before the Mains then," his dad, an AGM with PowerGrid Corporation Limited, explained.
Divyanshu always aspired to become an IAS officer. He studied for around seven hours every day and also cracked CAT. "My son turned down a job offer from Deutsche Bank which had offered him a pay package of over Rs 40 lakh per year," Jha said and added Divyanshu did not opt for coaching classes, but would do private test series. He attributed his son's "poor performance" last year to his "overconfidence".
Another technocrat hailing from Patna, Utkrisht Prasoon, has ranked 101st in the prestigious examination in his very first attempt. All of 22 years now, he applied for the civil services examination not as a graduate but as an "appearing graduate". The result of his BTech information technology from Delhi College of Engineering came in June last year.
Son of Prof Damodar Singh of B S College-Danapur and Prof Abha Singh of A N College-Patna, Utkrisht did not intend to pursue engineering as a career. "I used to prepare for the UPSC examination when my college friends would write placement examinations of various companies," the DPS-Patna and DPS-R K Puram alumnus told TOI over phone from Delhi and credited his success to his parents and elder brother Abhinav Prasoon, who is an Indian Information Service officer.
Utkrisht aspires to join the IAS. "For now I don't know if 101 will get me the IAS," he said and added he has so far not thought about second attempt to better his rank in case he doesn't get the coveted IAS.
Prof Damodar Singh, needless to say, is proud of his son's feat. He is also proud of the fact none of his sons ever went for private coaching. "Utkrisht might be youngest of the lot," he said, pride and pleasure writ large on his face. Prof Singh is hopeful of his son getting the IAS. "My elder son told me there were 94 IAS vacancies for general category aspirants last year and even 116th rank holder got it," he said and added this year there are 90 vacancies.
source:TOI
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