PATNA: Om Prakash Gupta of Patna has topped the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) 64th Combined Competitive Examination, the results of which were announced on Sunday.
Gupta said he had never expected to secure the top rank in the administrative exam.
“The result came as a surprise.
I had worked hard for the exam since 2017 after leaving my teaching job for the preparation.
I, as a government servant, want to work hard,” he said.
Altogether 1,454 candidates have cleared the exam and 28 of them will join the Bihar administrative service, 40 police service, 10 finance service while two will be jail superintendents and eight each will work as junior electoral officer and sub-registrar or joint sub-registrar.
Amrendra Kumar, joint secretary-cum-examination controller of BPSC, said 3,799 candidates appeared for the interview and1454 of them made it to the final list.
Supaul’s Vidyasagar secured the second rank while Anurag Anand from Madhubani stood third.
Vidyasagar, who cleared his UPSC exam last year, is presently posted at railway accounts service.
“I am not sure about joining the state service.
I will decide later,” he said.
Anurag, who cleared the exam in his first attempt, said he studied through micro-blogging sites such as YouTube and Telegram.
“I never joined any coaching classes for the preparation,” he said.
Anurag did his civil engineering from IIT Delhi in 2016.
All the top ten rank holders are men.
Vishal from Munger, Shashank Barnwal (Girdih in Jharkhand), Ajit Kumar (Patna), Alok Kumar (Ara), Nikhil Kumar (Araria), Raghwendra Mani Tripathi (Deoria in Uttar Pradesh) and Deepak Kumar (Samastipur) secured fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth position, respectively.
Aaryaa Raj of Khagaria district is serving as the SDPO in Begusarai’s Balia block.
She did her postgraduation from JNU in 2019 and schooling from Krishna Niketan and Notre Dame Academy.
She believed that Bihar was still far behind in education of girls and wanted to work in this field.