Jalandhar Civil Engg gets 509th rank in UPSC exam

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 5

Gursimar Singh (30) of Punjabi Bagh near Wadala Chowk cleared the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) examination, 2019, the results of which were declared on Tuesday.

He passed his Class XII from MGN Public School, Adarsh Nagar, and did Civil Engineering from Thapar University in 2014. He was working with a GOI-run company — Engineer India Ltd — in Delhi. His father Simar Singh, who retired as SE (B&R), PWD, said: “My son was an NTSE scholarship holder in school. He cleared the Punjab Public Services Commission paper in 2018 and got selected as DSP (Jails), but he continued to strive for clearing the UPSC, which he managed in his fourth attempt.”

Like him, Naveen Rattu (27) hailing from Mehatpur in Jalandhar, also cleared his UPSC exam by getting the 776th rank. Posted as Block Development and Panchayat Officer in Ludhiana, he completed his studies from Chandigarh.