UPSC releases marks of recommended candidates
New Delhi, April 19
Civil services exam topper Aditya Srivastava scored 54.27 per cent in the prestigious exam conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), according to the detailed marks of the recommended candidates released by the commission on Friday.
Following closely behind is Animesh Pradhan, who scored 52.69 per cent in the Civil Services Exam, 2023.
As many as 1,016 candidates — 664 men and 352 women — have qualified in the examination, results of which were announced on Tuesday.
The examination is conducted annually by the UPSC in three stages — preliminary, main and personality test (or interview) — to select officers for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.
The preliminary examination consists of two objective type (multiple choice) question papers of 400 marks.
A trainee Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Srivastava hails from Lucknow. He completed his BTech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, and also possesses an MTech degree. He had electrical engineering as his optional subject in the civil services exam.
Pradhan (24), resident of Talcher town in Odisha’s Angul district, scored 1,067 marks — 892 in written and 175 in interview — and secured the second rank.
