Telugu Teacher From Srikakulam Gets All India 3rd Rank In Civil Services Exam-2016

1 Jun, 2017 10:29 IST|Sakshi
Muzammil Khan, the son of retired IPS officer AK Khan, who secured the 22nd rank being congratulated by Rachakonda Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat

Hyderabad: A farmer’s son from a remote village in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh has secured the third rank in the all-India Civil Services Examination 2016 conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

Gopala Krishna Ronanki, 30, is the son of Ronanki Appa Rao, a farmer from Parasamba village in Palasa mandal.

Nandini KR, who hails from Karnataka, has topped the civil services examination, the result of which was declared on Wednesday by the UPSC.

Nandini is an officer of the Indian Revenue Service, and at present undergoing training at the National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics in Faridabad.

Anmol Sher Singh Bedi is the topper among male candidates securing overall second rank. He is an engineering graduate in computer science from BITS, Pilani.

The top 25 candidates comprise 18 men and 7 women.

Ronanki is a pharmacy graduate from Vizag and did his MBA from Niper, Mohali. He did his schooling in Telugu medium and appeared for the UPSC interview in Telugu. His optional in Mains was Telugu literature.

Incidentally, Gopalakrishna’s teacher Ms Bala Latha, 35, secured the 167th rank. She heads the training institute where Gopalakrishna studied, and is physically handicapped.

Gopalakrishna, son of a farmer from Parasamba in Palasa mandal in Srikakula district, wrote the test in Telugu. He works as a secondary grade teacher in Regulapadu MPP School in Palasa mandal of Srikakulam district, and was also shortlisted for the AP Public Service Commission Group-I interviews in 2011. He prepared for the civils in Hyderabad.

Gopalakrishna attended junior college in Palasa and he did the DEd course. He graduated from MR College in Vizianagaram.

“Gopalakrishna was a meritorious student from his childhood. He never compromised on anything,” said Rukminamma, his mother.

28-year-old Muzammil Khan, the son of retired IPS officer AK Khan from Hyderabad, secured the 22nd rank.

AK Khan was the Hyderabad City police commissioner and director general of the Anti-Corruption Bureau in the Telangana government and currently serving the Telangana government as an adviser.

An electrical engineer from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani in Rajasthan, Khan gave up a lucrative job in a private firm to prepare for the civil services examination.

"I could make it to the Indian Railway Services in the first attempt, but finally, I could make it to the IAS in my second attempt. I am happy to achieve this rank and feel lucky to get it in the holy month of Ramzan," Khan said.

Khan took anthropology as his subject in the mains. “I found it a very interesting subject to prepare. I focussed on the subject for one full year and it helped me a lot,” he said.

He said he did not find it tough to prepare for the examination. “It’s enough to study for six hours a day with a perfect planning. That’s it,” he said.

He attributed his success to his father, who he said was his role model. “In fact, my entire family stood by me and gave me a lot of encouragement,” Khan added.

Other toppers from the two Telugu states who made it to the top 100 include Mikkilineni Manu Chowdary (36), CV Praveen Aditya (79) and P. Anvesha Reddy (80).

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