Six from West Bengal feted for success in UPSC

KOLKATA: Six youngsters from Bengal who scripted success stories in UPSC finals were felicitated in presence of former, current and new bureaucrats at an event organised by the state on Tuesday.
Chief secretary H K Dwivedi said, “You don’t need to be a topper to crack the UPSC. Just be hard-working and sincere. We need to ensure that students from Bengal are not afraid to take the UPSC exams. Three or four years ago, our CM Mamata Banerjee would keep insisting we had an academy to coach aspirants. Then we set up the Satyendranath Tagore Civil Service Study Centre (SNTCSSC).”
Former chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, chief advisor to CM and director-general, ATI, said, “In our times, a successful UPSC aspirant hardly got any recognition. But now, so many senior bureaucrats are here, applauding you.”
The senior bureaucrats, with former DGP Surajit Kar Purakayastha; chairman, SNTCSSC, education secretary Manish Jain; and Jyotirmoy Pal Chaudhuri, academic consultant, SNTCSSC, congratulated Ankita Agarwal, who came second in UPSC 2021, Shubham Shukla (AIR 43), Abhijit Ray (AIR 50), Indrashis Dutta (AIR 94), Diya Goldar (AIR 610) and Mayuri Mukherjee, who cracked the UPSC 2020 and ranked 139.
Addressing the stud-ents of SNTCSSC at the Netaji Subhas Administrative Training Institute in Salt Lake, Agarwal said, “There’s no real mantra to success. It’s consistent hard work.”
Kar Purakayastha said, “You don’t need to go to Delhi for IAS coaching. Our centre has roped in the faculty of Khan Study Centre and Shankar Academy to teach here.”