Five students from Vidarbha crack UPSC
   Date :24-May-2023

UPSC 
 
 
Staff Reporter
 
FIVE students from Vidarbha have succeeded in cracking the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination, the results for which were declared on Tuesday. Of the five, Janhavi Sathe secured 7th position in Maharashtra and 127the All India Rank (AIR). Cracking the UPSC examination is everybody’s dream. Fortunately, the regional imbalance too got removed now as every state is taking its own efforts. Nagpur’s graph too is going high as far as number of students from city excelling in UPSC.
Director of the Centre Dr Pramod Lakhe expressed satisfaction over the result. He said that the situation has improved at the centre as more number of students are succeeding in the examination. Nagpur's Rahul Atram is a student of tribal community. Student belonging to tribal community have passed UPSC after several years. Some of these students had taken admission in the Pre-IAS Training Center of Nagpur, run by the state government. Some have taken advantage of the interview training conducted at the center in Delhi.
This time five students became successful by securing good ranks in this examination. Of the five, 4 youths who cleared the examination had their coaching from Pre-IAS Training Centre, Nagpur. Seven students of the centre were selected for personal interviews, of which 4 cleared the interview. Among these, Amit Undirwade got 581st rank. Whereas Rajshree Deshmukh has been included in the provisional list. Prateek Korde with 638th rank and Rahul Atram with 663rd rank cleared the examination.
 
Prateek studied in ZP, civic schools  
PRATEEK Korde of Narkhed, who secured 638th rank in UPSC, studied in schools run by Zilla Parishad and Municipal Council. He did his BSc from a c ollege in Pune; then Post Graduation in English Literature. Prateek attempted UPSC examination five times, but failed to reach the interview level. This time he cleared all stages, including the interview, successfully. Anthropology was his subject in the Mains. Prateek ranks second in Narkhed. Vishal Khatri, now serving as Assistant Collector at Sindhudurg, is also from Narkhed. Khatri first got Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and now IAS.
 
‘Overcoming earlier failures was the biggest challenge’  
AMIT Undirwade of Gondia, who secured 581st rank, started preparing for UPSC exams in 2013 after graduating fromYCCE, Wanadongri, Nagpur, as an engineer. In ten years, he appeared for the Mains five times and faced interviews three times. He got success in his third attempt. Therefore, his biggest challenge was “overcoming failures and again appearing in the examination with an instinct to clear the examination”. According to Amit, the range of UPSC exam is vast and not limited to a few books and syllabus, so it is difficult to make the right pick while preparing. Amit's father Chandrabhan Undirwade is a retired Forest Department official and mother Vaishali Undirwade is a homemaker.