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State reaps rich haul in Civil Services

State bags first position for second consecutive year
Hyderabad emerging as one of the best training centres

---PHOTO: P.V. SIVAKUMAR

Jubilant: Raja Reddy (left), director of RC Reddy IAS Coaching Centre, congratulating A. Sreedhar Babu, B. Raghu Kiran, K. Deviprasad, and B. Varun Chandrasekhar, on Friday after the UPSC results were announced.

HYDERABAD: The State reaped a rich harvest in the Civil Services examinations with nearly 40 candidates likely to get into various All India services.

Adapa Karthik took the all India first position, which is bagged by the State for the second consecutive year. For the first time there are two candidates in the top 10 ranks. A. Sreedhar Babu bagged 5th rank. Interestingly, both of them got into IPS last year and are training in the National Police Academy in Hyderabad. The other ranks expected for the candidates include S. Ashwini (IFS), P. Bala Kiran ( IAS), V. Vinay Chand (IAS), Karanam Devi Prasad (IAS), B. John (IAS), Chakradhar (IPS), Vimaladitya (IPS), Pavithran Kumar (IPS), C. Vamsi Krishna (IRS), Pallavi. A. ( IRS), Krishna Veni (IRS), Divya, B. Chandrakala, P. Shiv Shanker, Raghu Kiran, A. Vamsi, N. Ashok Babu, Varun Chandrasekhar, P. Sridevi, M. Suresh and K.C. Nagaraja Naidu.

Childhood dream

Sreedhar Babu, a native of Guntur is a computer science graduate.

Cracking civils has been his childhood dream.

His father expired last year after he got into IPS and this success is a tribute to him. His optionals were public administration and Telugu literature. S. Ashwini tops the lists among women from Andhra Pradesh and is a topper from Hyderabad. Ashwini is a computer science graduate from M.J. College, and has chosen public administration and anthropology as her optionals.

“Hyderabad is fast emerging as one of the best training centres for the civil services examination.Many candidates from the North East have taken coaching in Hyderabad and qualified for the top services,” says Gopala Krishna of Brain Tree.

Some of them include Saidingpuii Chhakchhuk and John Tlangtinkhuma, who both got IAS.

He said about 23 students from Brain Tree have qualified this year. Nearly 20 students from R.C. Reddy institute would also get into services.

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