Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) announced results of the Civil Services Examination 2020, in which 761 candidates have secured appointment to various services. Shubham Kumar, topped the list of successful candidates. He hails from Bihar. He is a Civil Engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay. Anthropology was his optional subject. Jagriti Awasthi secured the second place with Sociology as her optional subject. She is an Electrical Engineering graduate from MANIT, Bhopal. Third rank holder is Ankita Jain from Delhi.
Altogether 13 men and 12 women comprised the top 25 candidates. Out of the 761 candidates selected, 545 are men and 216 women. The top 25 candidates are from diverse educational field like Engineering, Humanities, Commerce and Medicine from some of the top institutions of the country. 25 persons with benchmark disabilities are also in the list of successful candidates.