Renu Raj, Asha Ajith get Kerala cadre

NEW DELHI: Civil Services Exam second rank achiever Renu Raj, hailing from Kerala, has got home state, as per the cadre allocation of 180 IAS officers finalised by Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). Eight persons had got IAS from Kerala.

40th rank holder Asha Ajith and 72nd rank holder Jeromic George also got Kerala cadre. 
M S PRashanth (47 rank), B Vishu Chandran (210), K M Sarayu (220), M and K Kamal Kishore (370) got Ramil Nadu cadre. Saju Vaheed (429) got Tripura. 

Native of Andhra Pradesh V R K Teja (66 rank) and NSK Umesh (77 rank) from Tamil Nadu also got Kerala cadre. 

An officer gets to serve allocated cadre state for most of the time of his or her career.

The civil services examination is conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) annually in three stages-- preliminary, main and interview--to select candidates for the elite IAS, Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.

The results of the exam were on July 4.

The civil services preliminary examination was conducted on August 24 last year at 2,137 venues in 59 centres across the country. About 9.45 lakh candidates had applied for it but approximately 4.51 lakh had appeared in it.

Of these, 16,933 were declared qualified for the main examination which was held in December last year.

The result of civil services main examination was declared on March 13, this year. 3,308 candidates were declared qualified for the personality test or interview.

A total number of 1,236 candidates, including 590 in General category, 354 belonging to Other Backward Class, 194 from Scheduled Caste and 98 from Scheduled Tribe, have been recommended for appointment to various central government services on the basis of the final results, the UPSC said.

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