Eight Gujarat students clear Civil Services Examination

Eight students from Gujarat have cleared the Civil Services Examination 2008, results for which were declared today. They will become IAS or IPS officers according to their preference.

All successful students are from Ahmedabad based Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration(SPIPA).

Names of succesful students are:Vijay Kharadi, Pradyuman Meena, Mukesh Tekwani, Kavita Chunara, Manish Chavda and Mihir Rayka. Kharadi is ranked at 72, Kavita 269, Manish 625, Mihir 522, Pradyuman 774 and Mukesh 242.

A total of 791 candidates have cracked the exam for which written test was conducted in October-November last year and the interview for personality test was held in March-April this year.

The top 25 candidates included 10 women. While 12 of them are from Commerce, Management, Humanities, Science and Social Sciences, nine candidates are from streams of Engineering and four from Medical Sciences.

A total of 3,18,843 candidates applied for the examination, while 1,67,035 appeared for the preliminary examination. Of them 11,849 qualified for the Mains but only 2,140 could make it to the personality test.