City based girl Rani Gupta secured 64th rank in UPSC examinations declared on Saturday. A Bachelor of Engineer from RGPV, Rnai had left the package of a Rs 5 lakh offered by private firm and chose to prepare for IAS and succeeded in her efforts.
She said that three years of hard efforts have finally been paid in the form of much awaited success which was declared on Saturday.
It is for the first time that the results of the UPSC were declared after four days of the final phase of UPSC examination which is personal interview.
Rani lives in Rachna Nagar and her father Rajendra Gupta runs a medical shop. Rajendra Gupta said that Rani’s grandfather went ill and chances of survival were bleak but in that situation he wished that he would die after Rani’s becoming IAS.
She said that in the engineering stream there is tough competition and due to which she chose Philosophy which is her favorite subject.
After the completion of graduation she was selected in the campus selection by l& T Company and was offered an remuneration of Rs 5 lakh per annum but she decided to become an IAS and prepared for the examination for two years in Delhi and later returned and started preparing under the guidance of Sharad Gupta and became successful in her third attempt.
After securing good rank she hopes that she would get Madhya Pradesh cadre as she wants to work for tribals of Eastern Madhya Pradesh which requires improvement in the social structure and apart from she would also focus on woman safety and value based education.