UPSC CSE Result 2021: 7 from Jammu crack IAS exam; None from Kashmir

Srinagar: Seven candidates from Jammu and Kashmir have cracked the UPSC Civil Services Examination, results of which were announced on Monday. All the seven candidates belonged to Jammu division, while for the first time in more than a decade, no candidate from Kashmir made it to the list of 685 candidates.

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Kashmiri students began taking a liking towards the union civil services, especially since 2010 after Shah Faesal became the first person from the erstwhile state to top the examination.

Since then, Jammu and Kashmir has produced at least 10 civil servants every year, except in 2015 and 2020, when nine and six candidates, respectively, made it to the list.

Of the successful candidates, 244 are from the general category, 73 from Economically Weaker Sections, 203 of Other Backward Classes, 105 from Scheduled Caste and 60 from the Scheduled Tribes, the Commission said.

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The civil services examination is conducted annually by the UPSC in three stages – preliminary, main and interview – to select officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS) among others. The written or main part of the examination was conducted in January 2022, and the interviews were held in April and May this year, it said.