Debasis Panda of Bonei of Sundargarh district has brought laurels for the locality after becoming topper in the Odisha Civil Services Examinations 2018, the results of which were declared on Monday.
Debasis is the son of Prasanna Kumar Panda and Pramila Dwibedy, who are retired teachers. Debasis was always very good at his studies since his schooling days.
He had passed matric exam from Raja Dharanidhar High School, Bonei by securing 94 per cent marks and had secured 13th rank in Odisha at that time. He had passed +2 science from Kalinga Bharati Residential College, Cuttack by securing 81 percent marks. Debasis thereafter had studied BSC (Agriculture) in OUAT and was a gold medalist. Later, he did post graduate in crop science in Indira Gandhi Agriculture University at Raipur.
During the preparation of post graduation, Debasis was preparing for Odisha Civil Service examinations. He appeared for first time during the year 2017. This was his second attempt.
"The credit for my success goes to almighty, my parents and my teachers. Youtube helped me a lot during my preparation for the exam. Though I could not crack the OCS exam first time during 2017, I never gave up and worked hard for 2018 OCS exam and succeeded in securing Ist rank in Odisha," said an elated Debasis.
"I will work for tribal people of my district and farming community of Odisha," Debasis said. Significantly, total eight persons including three girls of Rajgangpur of Sundargarh district have cracked the examinations.