Gumla youth tops Jharkhand civil services examination

GUMLA: He was hopeful of his selection but never thought of getting the top position. So when Lekhraj Nag topped the list of the fourth state civil service examination conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission, it was unbelievable to him.
"I cound not believe it first" he told TOI. So offering thanks to the god was thought necessary and the entire family sat together to worship the almighty for blessing till Wednesday afternoon.A soft-spoken Lekharaj has proved that patience and dedication to study could lead one to realize his or her dreams.
Lekhraj did his schooling from Saraswati Shishu Mandir and St Ignatius High School here. After completing intermediate from St Xavier's College, Ranchi he came back to Gumla to clear graduation with history honours from Kartik Oraon College here. He did his masters in public administration from Eastern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management, Sikkim and competed NET and Junior Research Fellowship this year.
The long six years of study and preparations made him seasoned to perform well in exams and ultimately his patience paid off. "It was my third attempt. Though I had qualified for interview twice but finally could not succeed," he said.
He chose public administration and Nagpuri language and literature as optional subjects for the main examination. The former is closely related the administrative job while the latter is close to local culture of the state and scoring too, he said.
Despite being the state topper, he chose administrative service though he had the choice of police service. Studying five to six hours daily was Lekhraj's schedule during the past few years.
On a query that the provincial service needs to be more effective in deliverance, he said the provincial services officers usually execute different programmes and schemes of the government.
"The morale and integrity level needs to be strengthened to come up to the wishes and aspiration of the people." Counting three factors - persistence and continuity in study, seer patience and self-confidence as the key to success, he said a strategy too needed to be followed in preparing for the civil service examination.
Besides Lekhraj, Raja Mitra, Julfikar Ansari, Sandeep Bhagat, Isha Khandelwal and Ravi Kishore Ram from the district, too, have cracked the state civil service examination this year.