The UPSC announced the result of the civil services examination 2019.
The netizens came across the case of reel-meets-real, as a police officer from Delhi has been going viral on social as the the real-life counterpart of the fictitious Imran Ansari from the Netflix series ‘Paatal Lok’.
Constable Firoz Alam works for Delhi Police and much like the handsome, upright and talented Ansari in the Anushka Sharma produced show, Alam has cleared the UPSC examination with 646 rank, as per an update posted by a journalist on Twitter.
The UPSC announced the result of the civil services examination 2019. While Pradeep Singh has topped the exams, Jatin Kishore and Pratibha Verma got the second and third rank, respectively.
But images of Alam have nevertheless been doing the rounds on social media, thanks to his similarity to the character of Ansari, who was also a Delhi Police constable who wanted to become a civil servant and was thus studying to pass the UPSC examination.
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Twitter :
Saurabh Trivedi @saurabh3vedi
A real life Imran Ansari from #paatallok – He is Firoz Alam, a #DelhiPolice constable posted with PCR unit. He has secured AIR 645 in #UPSC2019.
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Alam is not the only one to make news on social media after the results of UPSC were announced.
A candidate by the name of Rahul Modi – an amalgamation of the names of PM Narendra Modi and his nemesis Congress leader Rahul Gandhi- secured the 420 rank, causing much hilarity on social media.
source: http://www.newsd.in / Newsd.in / Home> Trending / by Newsd / August 05th, 2020
44 Muslims figure among the 829 successful candidates.
Bengaluru:
The UPSC results were declared on Tuesday (August 4) and 829 candidates were selected for the top civil services across the nation. Of the 829 successful, 44 are stated to be Muslims. Reports have however put the figure of successful Muslim candidates between 42 and 45. Of the total, 180 will be joining the Indian Administrative Services (IAS); 24 will be going for Indian Foreign Services (IFS) and 150 will be taken into the Indian Police Service (IPS).
The Residential Coaching Academy (RCA) under the Jamia Millia Islamia has claimed that 30 of its candidates were successful. Fourteen of them are Muslims. Twenty five of them were residing at the Academy while another five received the coaching while residing outside the campus. The Zakat Foundation of India has claimed that 27 candidates were successful. Of these 23 are Muslims. Six candidates coached by the Jamia Hamdard are among the successful ones. Of these two are Muslims. Last year, there were 28 Muslims among the 759 successful candidates.
However, the results are disappointing from the angle of toppers. Only a single Muslim candidate, Safna Nazruddeen from Kerala has been awarded 45th rank. There is no other Muslim candidate among the top hundred. Jamia press released claimed that out of the 30 of its selected candidates, six are expected to get IAS, eight are likely to get IPS and remaining candidates will get IRS, Audit & Account services, IRTS and other allied services of Group-A. Six of the 30 candidates are girls. The RCA’s performance has dipped this year. Last year Junaid Ahmed emerged as the third rank-holder in the UPSC competitive exams. The RCA has so far produced 230 civil servants for the topmost bureaucracy. Besides, 285 of its trained candidates have been selected for various other Central and State Government services such as Reserve Bank of India, scheduled banks, Jammu & Kashmir State services etc.
The Muslim representation took a dip in 2018 when only 29 Muslims figured among 759 successful candidates. In 2017, there were 44 Muslims among 990 cleared for the services. It was in 2016 that the representation began showing upward trend with success of 50 Muslim candidates that year. Of the 50, ten figured among the top hundred. Since then the proportion of Muslims in the UPSC exams has hovered around 5%, a twofold increase from 2.5% for several decades. This is owing to concerted efforts by some institutions, notably Jamia Millia Islamia’s RCA, Zakat Foundation of India, Jamia Hamdard and the Central Haj Committee, Mumbai. However, majority of the successful Muslims this year are from southern States, although 60% of India’s Muslims live in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam (and their splinter states). This is where attention needs to be focused and efforts should be taken to improve standard of coaching in schools and colleges where the majority of Muslim students head.
Among the successful candidates is Dr. Asrar Ahmed Kichloo, a 27-year old doctor from Dodda district of Jammu. He is one among the 14 who cracked the Civil Services exam this year from the State. He completed his MBBS from GMC in Jammu. He is son of a Veterinarian mother and a father who is a retired official from the Animal Husbandry Department in the State.
Kichloo told the media that he decided to go for Civil Services after he saw a man from a rural area in Jammu had applied cowdung on his wounds. He found to his horror that patients in rural areas in the State had to travel 24 hours to reach the doorsteps of a hospital and therefore resort to superstitious practices or approach quacks. Incidentally, a Muslim girl, Nadia Beig also figures among those who were successful from the State. Nadia hails from Ramhal village in Kupwara district of the State. At 23, she is the youngest to crack the UPSC. An Economics Honours graduate from Jamia Millia, Nadia had tried for the Civil Services for the second time. She took coaching at the RCA.
List of successful Muslim candidates for UPSC Result-2019
S. No.
Name
Rank
1
Safna Nazarudeen
45
2
Shaikh Mohd Zaib Zakir
153
3
Jithin Rahman
176
4
Rumaiza Fathima R V
185
5
Nongjai Mohd Ali Akram Shah
188
6
Samir Ahmad
193
7
Suthan Abdullah
209
8
Sofia*
241
9
Asrar Ahmad Kichloo
248
10
Noorul Quamer
252
11
Ajmal Shahzad Aliyar Rawther
254
12
Farman Ahmad Khan
258
13
Mohd Shafiq
292
14
Sufiyan Ahmed
303
15
Azharuddin Zahiruddin Quazi
315
16
Asif Yousuf Tantray
328
17
Ahmad Belal Anwar
332
18
Nadia Beig
350
19
Ashik Ali P I
367
20
S Mohammed Yakub
385
21
Shahul Hameed A
388
22
Shaheen C
396
23
Md Shabbir Alam
403
24
Aftab Rasool
412
25
Shiyaz K M
422
26
Ahamed Ashik O S
460
27
Mohammad Nadeemuddin
461
28
Syed Zahed Ali
476
29
Mohammed Danish K
487
30
Md Qamaruddin Khan
511
31
Maaz Akhter
529
32
Hassan Usaid N A
542
33
Mohammad Aaquib
579
34
Rehan Khatri
596
35
C Sameer Raja*
603
36
Faisal Khan
611
37
Saifullah
623
38
Sabzar Ahmad Ganie
628
39
Majid Iqbal Khan
638
40
Firoj Alam
645
41
Ruheena Tufail Khan
718
42
Rayeas Hussain
747
43
Mohammed Nawas Sharaf Uddin
778
44
Shaik Shoeb
823
45
Syed Junaid Aadil
M.A. Siraj is a senior journalist based in Bengaluru
source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> Featured News / by M.A. Siraj / August 05th, 2020