TEDxKanke, has been organizing a Webinar Series titled ‘The Rise of a New World’ which started on May 2. The speakers for the event on September 5 were Dr Anupama Singh, IAS 2020 Batch, AIR 90 and Priyank Kishore, IAS 2020 Batch AIR 61 while the talk was titled Decoding: Dreams, Aspirations and Success. The session was moderated by TEDx Kanke Curator Rajeev Gupta.
The series is slated to have speakers from the fields of technology, innovation, leadership, creativity and art and culture of national and international acclaim. The sessions are being streamed live on the Facebook page fb.me/tedxkanke20. This session had a hundred percent on Zoom and also about 700 viewers o while being streamed live on Facebook.
“A dream is not something we dream while sleeping but that which never lets us sleep. Throughout my education- from school to MBBS and MS I faced a lot of challenges but always took them on a positive note. Preparing for UPSC and getting into public administration was never a childhood dream. In fact as a kid I never knew about IAS. It was only after I became a doctor, a married woman and a mother that I decided to appear for the civil services exam,” said Singh.
“I desperately wanted to do more in the health care system of our country so I gave my resignation and appeared for the IAS exam at the age of 31. I never lost hope and took inspirations from top IAS officers who were also doctors and worked in versatile sectors. I can never take defeat and failure as an end and this is the reason behind clearing UPSC in my first attempt itself. For me, a dream without a plan is just a wish. One must plan it, set the goals and targets to achieve it,” added Singh.
Sharing his journey Kishore said, “Right from childhood I always had one goal in life- to go for civil services. I completed my graduation from Delhi University which has a vibrant culture for civil service preparation which helped me a lot. I began studying for UPSC in 2014-15 and in my first attempt in 2018 i got AIR 274. I was allocated to ‘Indian Audit and Account Service’ for which I was getting training in Shimla for the last 10 months. But then as my father said it was not the end. I resigned from the services and went back to Delhi and re-appeared for the UPSC exam and achieved AIR 61.”
“I followed ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’ which indicates that the ultimate need for any individual is to self- actualise. It is then that you get satisfaction. I was happy with the first attempt but then I thought I could do better and gave a successful second attempt,” added Kishore.