Patna,(BiharTimes): Talent has no boundary. Pradeep Bhuvneshwar Singh of Uttar Pradesh topped the 53rd to 55th Bihar Public Service Examination, which took place last year and whose interview was held in June 2013.
He got 74 per cent marks. Rajnish Kumar with 70 per cent and Harish Sharma with 69 per cent marks secured second and third positions respectively.
Out of 969 candidates, 532 have been selected for appointment as rural development officers (RDOs).
Among girls Kumari Anamika topped with 68 per cent marks to be followed by Reshu Krishna and Vandana. Both got 67 per cent marks. In all 843 men and 126 women qualified.
Out of 14,407, who appeared in the exam, 2,610 were declared elgible for interview.
Pradeep originally comes from Trilokpur village in Pratapgarh district of UP. He took to provincial service commission exams after his failure to crack the Union Public Service Commission’s civil services examination despite repeated attempts.
Before topping BPSC examination this year he cracked Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) exam. He joined as the district handicapped welfare officer in Bareilly. But job satisfaction forced him to appear in BPSC too. His opitional papers were Chemistry and Geography. Though he was sure of getting qualified yet he never thought that he would top it.
He did not opt for lectureship despite having passed the University Grants Commission’s National Eligibility Test and Junior Research Fellowship exam.
His father Bhuvneshwar Singh is a retired teacher of a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation school in Mumbai.
Pradeep moved to Delhi to prepare for civil services after doing post-graduation in Chemistry from Mumbai five years ago.
Pradeep has been allotted Bihar Finance Service and would get the post of commercial tax officer.
However, he wanted to become subdivisional magistrate for which there is no vacancy this year. But he said if the vacancy arises by the time the next BPSC examination is held, he would make a fresh attempt.
Meanwhile, Afzal Husain Khan of Bihar Rabita Committee told BiharTimes that 60 Muslims boys and girls qualified BPSC exam this year. Thus it is just over six per cent which is much less than over 10 per cent last time (2010).
There is only one woman Muslim candidate, Husna Ara, from Patna. She has done a course in Russian language in JNU.
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