Yadav’s is a story of how youngsters from remote hamlets are now aspiring to join the civil services and reversing trends in this state largely driven by families into business.
Yadav and Mukesh Tekwani from Veraval are among the few who have cleared the UPSC. Many of them are joining private coaching institutes or the Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA), to prepare for the civil services exam.
Dipak Meghani, who runs the Yuva Foundation, which coaches for the UPSC and State Service Commission exams, said, “Right now civil services aspirants are mostly from rural and smaller towns of Gujarat such as Mehsana, Patan, Banaskantha and other districts. More than 50 per cent of the batch now comprises of students from these areas.”
Joint director, SPIPA S A Patel said, “There is an increase of interest among the rural students to take the civil service examination. Now the composition of the class at SPIPA has become very diverse. Earlier it used to be students mainly from urban centres like Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara.”
“We have also now started conducting orientation programmes for these rural students at district levels, to guide and encourage them. Generally students coming from smaller centres showed a good success rate in the main examinations,” added Patel.
In the recently declared UPSC results, 10 students from Gujarat figured in the list of 474 rank holders against only one in 2006.
Bharat Bhati, 23, a civil service aspirant, belongs to the remote Malawad village in Banaskantha, and is enrolled in an IAS study centre in Ahmedabad. “After completing my engineering, I had corporate job offers but I decided to choose the civil services. I see it as a tool to bring positive changes in my native place and country,” he says.
“My father has a small land holding in the village, but my family has wholeheartedly provided all the necessary support I need and I am determined to make their dreams come true,” added Bhati.
Source by timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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