The daughter of a police officer obtains third place in the UP civil service exam and aims to pass the IAS


The 25-year-old daughter of a Uttar Pradesh police chief, Jyoti Sharma, who came third in the 2018 state provincial civil service (PCS) exam, says her ultimate goal is to become an IAS officer by passing the exam. civil service. The results were released on Friday.

Sharma, a student at Isabella Thoburn College, joined public service after passing the PCS exam on her first attempt in 2017 and now works as a block development officer at Ayodhya.

“I was on a field visit. My mentor phoned me to inform me that he had achieved third rank. He was in a state of disbelief. But then I checked my result online. It was amazing that he was in the top three, “he said.

“I have become an adjunct collector and will soon receive a position as SDM,” he said.

Determined to excel on the UPSC exam, she said, “I took the civil service (UPSC) exam twice, but I didn’t pass it.”

His father, Devendra Sharma, is posted as a police chief in Sitapur. “My younger sister, Kirti Sharma, is an ONGC scientist, living in Chennai, and my younger brother, Deepak Sharma, is a national volleyball player,” he said.

Women achieve the top three positions in PCS-2018

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Anuj Nehra from Panipat ranked first, Sangeeta Raghav from Gurugram ranked second, and Jyoti Sharma from Mathura ranked third on the merit list, as women took three of the top five in the PCS-2018 exams, the results of which were declared by the Uttar Pradesh public. Service Commission (UPPSC) on Friday.

Vipin Kumar Shivhare from Jalaun (Uttar Pradesh) and Karamveer Keshav from Patna (Bihar) took fourth and fifth ranks respectively.

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A total of 976 candidates were declared successful against 988 positions. Candidates can verify their results by visiting the commission’s official website at uppsc.up.nic.in, said UPPSC exam controller Arvind Kumar Mishra.

The others in the top 10 include Farhan Ahmad Khan, Shweta, Arun Kumar, Arun Dixit, and Ashwani Kumar Singh.

In terms of positions, PCS-2018 was one of the largest selection examinations of its kind conducted by the commission to date, with 988 positions of 40 different types on offer, including 119 deputy collector positions and 94 deputy SP positions. In the last 10 PCS exams, the number of publications offered was less than this, officials said.

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