Shruti Sharma tops Civil Services exam 2021; 685 qualify

New Delhi: Shruti Sharma has secured the top rank in the Civil Services Examination 2021.

The results were declared by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Monday in which Ankita Agarwal and Gamini Singla have secured the second and third rank respectively.

685 candidates have qualified in the tests for the the prestigious career, it said, without sharing further details of the candidates selected in the examination.

Of the successful candidates, 244 are from general category, 73 from Economically Weaker Sections , 203 of Other Backward Classes, 105 Scheduled Caste and 60 from the Scheduled Tribes, the Commission said.

The civil services examination is conducted annually by the UPSC in three stages Preliminary, Main and Interview, for jobs in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS) and several other national cadre of services, for which ranking in the examination will act as the determiner together with the candidates' preferences.

The written or main part of the examination was conducted in January, 2022, and the interviews were held in April and May this year, it said.

The candidature of 80 candidates is provisional while the result of one candidate has been kept withheld.

Besides the top three rank holders, Aishwarya Verma secured the fourth position and Utkarsh Dwivedi achieved the fifth rank, it said.

Results are also available on the UPSC's website -- www.upsc.gov.in, the Commission said.

"Marks will be available on the website within 15 days from the date of declaration of result," it said.

(PTI input)