Mumbai: The Union Public Service Commission Thursday declared the results of the Civil Service Examination 2013, naming 1,122 successful candidates inclduing 34 Muslims who had cleared the prestigious examination to join premier civil services including the Indian Administrative Service.
Gaurav Agrawal, Munish Sharma and Rachit Raj have bagged the top three spots in the tough examination comprising a written test (held in December 2013) followed by interviews (held in April-June 2014).
Among the top hundred successful candidates are four Muslims. They are Faiz AQ Ahmed Mumta (Rank 17), Abid Husaain Sadique (Rank 27), Md Musharraf Ali Farooqui (Rank 80) and Sana Akhter (Rank 90).
Other Muslims who had cleared the prestigious examination to join premier civil services are Basheer A Bhatt (Rank 189), Sheraz Danish Yar (rank 237), Shafeeq S (Rank 2500, Raja Yakoob Farooque (rank 274), Afshana Perveen (Rank 332), Danish Abdullah (rank 335), Mudassir Shafee (Rank 418), Asim Anwer (Rank 486), Mohammad Sujitha MS (rank 511), Raees Akhte ( Rank 564), Mohammad Iqbal (rank 568), Fareha Ejaz (rank 574), Aafaque Ahmed Giri (rank 585), Shakeel Maqbool (Rank 633), Mohd Moeen Aafaq (rank 649), Etesham Wakarib (rank 710), Sharif Rasheed (rank 715), Owais Ahmed (rank 741), Qamruzzama Choudhary (rank 751), Raunak Jameel (rank 763), Mohammad Saem (rank 775), Razique Fareed (rank 781), S. Fahad Ahmed Khan (rank 810), Nahas Ali (rank 851), Mohammad Shahid Kamal Ansari (857), Babu Abdul Qafir (rank 929), Anees C (rank 935), Mehtab Ahmed (rank 1003), Mohd Sarfaraz Aalam (rank 1016) and Mohammad Ashraf JS (rank 1032).
Religion of two successful candidates Ruhi Dugg and Tarannum Verma cannot be verified.
In 2013, 30 Muslims were among the successful candidates, four of them were among top 100.
The performance of successful Muslim candidates is almost same in numbers if compared with the results of last few years. In 2009, a total of 31 Muslims were in the list of 791 successful candidates. Though percentage wise it shows a marginal decline.
Likewise, in 2010 among the 875 successful candidates 21 were Muslims with Dr. Shah Faisal of Kashmir topping the exam at the national level.
Similarly in 2011, 31 Muslims were among the 920 successful candidates whereas in 2012 too 30 Muslims were selected for the civil services.
The results are particularly worrisome for the community as there are quite a few organisations which are running campaigns at different level to increase the representation of Muslims in the civil services.
Compare to their population in the country which is about 13-14%, only about 02% are in the civil services.
13 candidates who were trained at the coaching centre run by Zakat Foundation of India are also among those succesfully cracking the coveted exam considered as most difficult in India. Of these 13 candidates 12 are Muslims.
The results are based on the scores of the candidates comprising a written test (held in December 2013) followed by personality test interviews (held in April-June 2014).
The results can be accessed on the UPSC website.
This is the highest intake of civil servants through this examination, nearly double the 580 civil servants recruited in 2009. An additional 210 candidates have been placed in the reserve list.
While 517 candidates have cleared the examination in the general category, 326 belong to Other Backward Classes, 187 Scheduled Caste and 92 to Scheduled Tribe categories.
As many as 180 candidates have made it to the highly-coveted IAS, 32 to Indian Foreign Services and 150 to Indian Police Service.
The maximum (710) number of candidates has been selected for Central Services Group 'A' and the rest (156) to Group 'B' Services.
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