Story of Bishnu Charana Mallick, 11th Rank UPSC Exam Topper
(Topper Talk)
Its all about Focus, Dedication and Right Orientation : Nila Mohan 13th rank 2007
‘‘We need not ‘mastermind’ our life completely. To some extent, I think, we should also believe in serendipity.’’
It is indeed surprising to hear these words on destiny from an IAS topper. For, it is definitely not just wishful thinking that helped Nila Mohan come out with 13th rank in the Civil Services Examination 2007.
Taking part in an interaction organised at Press Club here on Sunday, Nila Mohan shared her experiences, strategies and the challenges she faced as she prepared for the examination. ‘‘The Civil Services is not an impossible dream. If you have the focus, dedication and right orientation, you can easily crack the examination,’’ she said.
(INTERVIEW) Remya J - 17th Rank
Panel: Dr.Bhure Lal
Here is a rough transcript of iview
Lasted 35 minutes….
C’Person: Welcome, Remya, Sit Down.
Me: Thank You Sir
C’person: So you are an MBA?
Me:Yes, Sir
C’person: Are you working now?
Me: No, sir I am self-employed.
CP: I see, what do you do?
Me: I run an online business.
CP: Oh, do tell me about it
Me: (Explained the details)
CP: I really need to learn about these online things. Can I join you? (Laughs)
Me: definitely Sir.
CP: So, Remya, your Optional is Public Administration, tell me about the 73rd and 74th amendment acts.
Story of Bishnu Charana Mallick, 11th Rank
Jajpur (Orissa) : The son of a poor landless Dalit in Orissa has done his family and village proud by securing 11th position in the latest civil services examination.
Jaladhar Mallick, a resident of Thalakodi village in the coastal Jajpur district, 120 kilometers from state capital Bhubaneswar, lives in a thatched house along with his family. He wanted his son Bishnu Charana Mallick to be a teacher in the village school.
However, his son surpassed his expectations and got selected for the Indian Revenue Service two years ago. Bishnu Charana Mallick is at present posted as assistant income tax commissioner at Nagpur in Maharastra.
(Success Story) The lorry driver's son who topped the civil services exam in Tamil Nadu
The 2006 competitive examinations for India's civil services is notable for the number of young people from non privileged backgrounds who feature in the merit list. Again, for the first time, none from India's elite metros appeared in the top ten.
Topping the Union Public Services Commission examination is Revu Muthyala Raju, a farmer's son and a member of the so-called Other Backward Classes, whose amazing story we will chronicle later in this special series. No less incredible are the stories of the other toppers. Like K Nandakumar, a lorry driver's son, whose success story we chronicle today.
There is, prima facie, something condescending about such headlines; an unstated presumption, almost, that a lorry driver's son topping a competitive exam is a freak show of sorts.
K Nandakumar's parents don't think so; they see their son not as some freak of nature, but as a young man who knew what he wanted, and went after it, surmounting obstacles as chance, and circumstance, threw them in his path.
"He was always a serious student," mother K Lakshmi says. "During school days he never used to go out to play. He used to go for tuitions from six to eight in the morning and again from five to eight in the evening. During exams, he studied till midnight and beyond. And in between, he was in school — so there really was no time to play."
Amusement, as we know it, was limited to a weekend game of cricket, of the limited variety — limited, in this case, not by the number of overs, but the amount of time Nandakumar could spare for such frivolity: exactly an hour a week.
Nandakumar's academic curve is typical of the no-pain, no-gain formulation that increasingly defines the Indian student. Up until the 12th standard, he studied in the Namakkal Government South School, an institution where the medium of instruction was Tamil.
With 1,018 marks out of a possible 1,200 in his Higher Secondary exams, he went to the Pollachi Mahalingam College for an engineering degree.
Economic constraints, and the feeling that he needed to pitch in to help his father run the household, led to a six-month stint with a private company in Coimbatore. During this period, he attempted to work days, then study nights — but when work, and the resultant fatigue, began impacting on his studies, he quit to focus on the Indian Administrative Service exams.
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