Nine, including 3 women, from J&K crack Civil Services exam

July 06, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:41 am IST - Srinagar:

Deeba Fahat (R) with her mother at their residence in Anantnag in South Kashmir on Sunday.– Photo: PTI

Deeba Fahat (R) with her mother at their residence in Anantnag in South Kashmir on Sunday.– Photo: PTI

Nine candidates, including three women, from Jammu & Kashmir have qualified the prestigious UPSC Civil Service examination, the results of which were declared yesterday.

The UPSC declared a total of 1,236 candidates successful across the country.

Deeba Farhat from South Kashmir’s Bijbehara town and Ruveda Salam from North Kashmir’s Kupwara district are the two women from the Valley to figure in the list, besides Jammu-based Pryati Sharma.

Other candidates who made it to the list from the State are Baseer-ul-Haq, Afaq Giri, Choudhary Muhammad Yasin, Athar Aamir-ul-Shafi Khan, Irfan Hafiz and Ankit Koul.

This is for the sixth consecutive year that youths from Jammu and Kashmir have figured prominently in the UPSC list.

In 2013, Ruveda Salam became the first woman from Kashmir to crack the IAS examination. Ruveda Salam reappeared this year and was ranked 878 in the results.

Eldest among three siblings, Deeba lost her father in a road accident when she was in primary school. Her mother, a government employee, has been supporting the family ever since.

Sharing her inspirational story, the engineering graduate said: “My mother always wanted to see me on top and I dedicate this success to her and also to my late father.”

Deeba secured a place in M. Tech. However, she decided to drop out and cleared Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS) in 2012.

She has been working as an Accounts Officer at the District Rural Development Agency’s Anantnag chapter. But her quest for excellence did not stop there. She decided to work hard and opted for IAS.

Her preparations were hampered because of the last year’s floods which damaged her house and study material.

“I appeared in the examination half-prepared. I got only a month to prepare as our house was flooded and we have been living at my grandmother’s place ever since,” she said.

She lost all her books, certificates and other important documents during the floods. “One thing I did not lose was the belief that I can achieve more. And though I qualified the exam, I intended to have another shot at the exam and try to better my rank the next time,” she said.

Passionate about Urdu literature and poetry, Deeba had opted for Urdu in the Civil Services despite being a science graduate. “I have studied Urdu till Secondary level only but I always loved reading Urdu literature and poetry. I am particularly fond of reading Alama Iqbal and Mirza Ghalib,” she said. - PTI

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