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Against all odds: Remarkable stories of IAS officers who fought their way to the top

Against all odds: Remarkable stories of IAS officers who fought their way to the top

by Amrita Priya | Mar 22, 2022

(March 22, 2022) Each year, lakhs of aspirants appear for one of India’s toughest exams: the civil services exam. The competition is cut-throat, to say the least. In 2021, over 9,70,000 aspirants applied for the UPSC exam but only 761 cleared it. Many candidates...

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