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New Delhi, May 14
Mutyalaraju Revu, an OBC candidate from a small village, has topped the highly competitive civil services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission at a time when the country debates the issue of reservation for OBCs in higher education.

Revu, 27-year-old son of a farmer in small village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, has surpassed 473 successful candidates including 214 general category qualifiers to top the merit list.

His uncle Venkanna was all praise for Revu, who is currently serving in the Andhra Pradesh police. Revu, who has always been a brilliant student, has done his Masters in Electronics from the premier Indian Institute of Sciences (IISC), Bangalore.

“I am really thrilled after hearing about Revu topping the examination. I had a word with him and he is equally thrilled as well. It’s a great news for all our family members,” Venkanna told IANS from west Godavari district on telephone.

There were some 200,000 applicants who appeared for the examination and only 474 finally qualified - a selection rate of a mere 0.237 percent. Of the selected candidates 373 are males and 101 females.