Shikha Gautam, a UPSC candidate from Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr, checked her consequence on March 6 “in a rush” and celebrated her “success” together with her household. Even the media picked up her story as that of a daughter of a peon cracking the civil providers examination.
However the celebration was short-lived.
Within the stated “hurry”, Shikha forgot that there may be a couple of individual with the identical title. It was, in truth, one other Shikha from Haryana’s Rohtak who had cleared the UPSC examination. The candidate from Bulandshahr has now apologised for her mistake.
Forgot to test her roll quantity, celebrated with a ‘victory march’
Shikha Gautam began celebrating as quickly as she noticed her title talked about within the consequence PDF, however forgot to test her roll quantity. And he or she was not the one one in her household who made this error.
Her household joined within the celebrations too, and an enormous native celebration with 1,200 folks happened, attended by her dad and mom and grandparents. Sweets have been distributed on this “victory march”, and the media additionally picked up on her “success story”. The daughter of a peon had cracked one of many hardest exams on this planet.
“My sister, Shikha, has secured 113th rank within the IAS examinations in her second try… She has at all times been studious. Her imaginative and prescient was to be a instructor earlier… My mom is a housewife. I’m very pleased with my sister,” her brother had informed native media.
The attention-grabbing factor in all this was that no person realised that Shikha hadn’t even cleared the UPSC Civil Providers (CSE) Mains examination and thus could not, in truth, have been eligible to clear the entire thing.
Shikha apologises for the confusion
Now, Shikha Gautam has apologised for her confusion and admitted that she solely noticed ‘Shikha’ talked about on the consequence PDF, not the roll quantity.
“The one who has been chosen is completely different, Shikha. As each our names are the identical, and I additionally solely checked the title within the PDF and didn’t test the roll quantity, that was my mistake,” she informed the information company, ANI.
This isn’t the primary case of mistaken identification to return to gentle within the UPSC Civil Providers Examination 2025 last consequence. Earlier, Aakansha Singh from Bihar’s Ara district had additionally claimed to have secured rank 301 within the UPSC CSE 2025 examination. Nonetheless, a day later, UPSC confirmed that the right candidate who had cracked the examination was a gynaecologist, Aakansha Singh from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur.
UPSC Civil Providers Remaining 2025 consequence was introduced by the Fee on March 6 (Friday). This time, Anuj Agnihotri has topped the federal government examination, reaching AIR 1, adopted by Rajeshwari Suve M at AIR 2 and Akansh Dhull at AIR 3.
