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UPSC 2018 results out: Engineer, doctor, scholar from Bengal on list

UPSC 2018 results out: Engineer, doctor, scholar from Bengal on list
Kolkata: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) 2018 results were announced on Friday. From chartered accountants, doctors to engineers and science post-graduates, several candidates from Bengal cleared the UPSC examinations with aplomb.
Joydeep Moitra, an NIT Durgapur engineering graduate, who lives in Chinsurah, has secured the 295th rank.
In the past six years, Moitra had been aiming to crack the UPSC exams and he drew inspiration from his father, a state civil services officer who was later promoted as an IAS.

“After my graduation, I had worked in a private company for little more than a year. My job took me to some backward areas and I felt that I could help those people, had I been a civil servant. I wanted to bring in some definitive change in their lives,” said Moitra who studied in Don Bosco, Liluah. Another UPSC candidate, Sourav Bhuvania, working as a chartered accountant with the RBI in the city, has got the 113th rank.
Rini Choudhury, a post-graduate in chemistry, secured the 396th rank. She was inspired by her parents, who are bureaucrats too. “I have seen them working with utmost sincerity, honesty and integrity,” Choudhury told TOI.
“Though I did my graduation and post-graduation in chemistry in Delhi, I had prepared for the UPSC examinations from my Kolkata home. I joined a coaching institute and got disillusioned soon. So, I prepared on my own by reading books, newspapers and browsing online portals,” she added.

After cracking the UPSC, Dr Sayantan Ghosh is in a dilemma whether to pursue a career in administrative service or continue with his present job as a medical practitioner. “I started preparing for the exams on my own and did most of studies online. My wife and I are physicians and we have a five-year-old daughter. I shall decide to switch over to administrative job, depending on what service I get,” said Ghosh.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted, “Heartiest congratulations to the successful candidates of the UPSC Exam 2018. May you serve the country with righteousness, always keeping in mind the welfare of the common people and, most of all, the marginalised.”
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