Patna,(BiharTimes): Though it is south India, which once again dominated the Civil Service 2012 results a number of students from Bihar did manage to qualify. But they were not in the list of top 25.

In fact Ajit Rai, son of late Brajbhushan Rai and Pramila Devi of Girha village under Rosera block of Samastipur district got 26th rank.

Satyendra Kumar, son of Radha Raman Jha and Kamla Rani Jha of Ghat Bhatra village under Bisfi block of Madhubani district got 71st rank. He is at present Assistant Commissioner, Custom, Excise and Services Tax and is posted in Kolkata.

Ajit Basant, son of Yogendra Jha of Madhubani district got 72.

Upendranath Verma of Nawada got 268th rank while Sujit Kumar of Begusarai got 423. 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.

Prashant Anand, son of Pramod Kumar Jha, a social activist of Bhagalpur got 176th position while Nilotpal, who got his Mechanical Engineering degree from Bhagalpur Engineering College in 2008 secured 510th rank. He is son of Onkar Nath Mishra, who was formerly with All India Radio, Bhagalpur, and lives in Bhikanpur locality of the town.

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.

Shankaranand Mishra, son of a school teacher, Krishna Narayan Mishra and Meena Mishra, secured 374 rank. He was a gold medalist from IIT Roorkee.

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. He had Mathematics and Public Administration as his optional subjects in the Mains. He did his schooling in P N Anglo Sanskrit School in Naya Tola locality of Patna.

Interestingly, most of the candidates who qualified from Bihar come from the rural and lower middle class background.