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Delhi’s Ishita Kishore secured an All-India Rank 1 (AIR 1) in the Civil Services 2022 final result declared by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) today afternoon. An alumnus of Delhi University’s Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Kishore completed her Economics Hons undergraduate degree in 2017.
Kishore cleared the UPSC CSE on her third attempt. “I am very happy to get the first rank. It’s a dream come true for me,” said Kishore.
She expressed gratitude towards her family for continuously encouraging her.
Twenty-six-year-old Kishore’s father was an Air Force officer and her mother used to teach at a private school. Her elder brother is a lawyer. “She has opted for the Indian Administrative Service and Uttar Pradesh cadre is her first preference,” she said.
She shares how she used to study for at least eight to nine hours a day to prepare for the examination.
Kishore is also a national-level football player. She informed the media that she would work for women’s empowerment and the upliftment of neglected people. “I am a national-level football player. I participated in the Subroto Cup football tournament in 2012,” she said.
A resident of Greater Noida, Kishore qualified for the UPSC CSE with political science and international relations as her optional subject.
Ishita went to Air Force Bal Bharati School, New Delhi and completed her Class 12 in commerce stream with 97.25 per cent. After this, she went on the study at SRCC.
During her graduation years, Ishita interned with CRY Foundation, Housing and Urban Development Corporation and GAIL Ltd.
In the year 2017, she joined Ernst and Young as a Risk Analyst and quit her job in 2019 to prepare for the UPSC Civil Services exam.
— with inputs from PTI
