New Delhi: 31 Muslim candidates cracked this year’s civil services examination, close to last year’s number. Overall, 761 candidates made it to the prestigious UPSC this year. Sadaf Choudhary, Muzaffarnagar (UP), ranked 23, has secured the highest rank among Muslim candidates. Shubham Kumar, an IIT Bombay graduate, topped the exam in his third attempt. Jagrati Awasthi and Ankita Jain secured second and third positions on the list.
The number of successful Muslim candidates had reduced this year compared to last year when 42 candidates had cleared the civil services exam. They constitute 4.07 percent out of the total 761 successful candidates.
More than fifty percent of the successful candidates in this list of 31 received their coaching and training at the Jamia Millia Islamia’s Residential Coaching Academy, New Delhi alone.
Jamia’s Academy has been doing well consistently over the past several years and adding up to the numbers year after year at this same pace.
20 Students from Jamia Millia Islamia’s Residential Coaching Academy have cleared the civil services examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Faizan Ahmed, who ranked 58, has secured the highest position among successful candidates from Jamia’s coaching academy.
Fourteen out of them are from the current batch, while the remaining six candidates were coached in previous batches at the Academy. Five external students trained for the interview at Jamia’s coaching academy have also cracked the exam.
A total of 10 students from Jamia Hamdard Residential Coaching Academy, New Delhi, are also among the 761 candidates selected by the UPSC for various positions. Vinayak Chamadia, who ranked 47, has secured the highest place among candidates from Jamia Hamdard.
Congratulating the successful candidates, former vice president, and diplomat Mohammad Hamid Ansari said for various reasons; young people are still shying away from the challenge as not so many Muslim youths are appearing for the examination s. The motivation to overcome this factor has to be developed, he said.
The list of the selected Muslim candidates UPSC 2020
1) 23 – Sadaf Choudhary
2) 58 – Faizan Ahmed
3) 63 – Dheenah Dastageer
4) 125 – Md Manzar Hussain
5) 129 – Shahid Ahmed
6) 142 – Shahansah KS
7) 203 – Mohammad Aaquib
8) 217 – Shahnaz I
9) 225 – Waseem Ahmad Bhat
10) 234 – Bushara Bano
11) 270 – Mohammad Haris Sumair
12) 282 – Altamash Ghazi
13) 283 – Ahmed H.Choudhury
14 ) 316 – Sara Ashraf
15) 389 – Mohibullah Ansari
16) 403 – Aneez s
17) 423 – Zeba Khan
18) 447 – Faisal Raza
19) 450 – S Mohd. Yakub
20) 470 – Sabeel Poovakundil
21) 478 – Rehan Khatri
22) 493 – Mohd Javed A
23) 545 – Altaf Mahd. Shaikh
24) 558 – Khan Aasim Kifayat
25) 569 – Syed Zahed Ali
26) 583 – Shakeerahmed Tondikhan
27) 589 – Mohamed Riswin
28) 597 – Muhammad Sahid
29) 611 – Iqbal Rasool Dar
30) 625 – Amir Bashir
31) 738 – Majid Iqbal Khan
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