In a first, three students of St. Xavier’s School, Hazaribagh successfully cracked the prestigious UPSC examination this year.

The trio, Dipankar Choudhary, Abhimanyu Kumar and Anurag Diwvedi, are friends and passed their matriculation exams from the school in 2008.

Dipankar, a resident of Basant Vihar colony who cracked the IAS, had cleared the UPSC in 2018 and made it to the Indian Police Service (IPS) list.

He is presently undergoing training in Kerala, and said that he kept working on his preparation despite his training.

He said that it was a do-or-die situation, and that he left no stone unturned.

“After all, I knew that success has no shortcuts”, the B.Tech graduate from Delhi who ranked 42nd added.

“I had joined a private job but was unhappy. So left the job and started preparing for UPSC,” he said.

His father served as deputy development commissioner before retiring from the state service and his mother is an aanganwadi supervisor

Priyank Kishore, Anurag Diwvedi, Abhimanyu Kumar Sourced by the Telegraph

Anurag, who ranked 114th, was an engineering student and had resigned from his private job to prepare for the examination.

“I felt that there is something missing in life,” Anurag said, adding that his parents supported him in his journey. His father is a mathematics teacher at the Vinoba Bhave University.

“They said do whatever you like, we are with you,” he said, adding that their encouragement made him take up full-fledged preparation for the UPSC.

Abhimanyu, who got the IFS delegation, said he sat for the examination at his parents’ behest.

“I was not interested at all but my parents asked me to join the service and so I did what they said. However, my aim of becoming an IAS officer was still in mind so I kept working and finally got results”, he said, adding that he had cleared the 2018 engineering services which he didn’t join.

Abhimanyu’s father is presently an officer in the state posted as director of Jharkhand Tribal Development Society.

The trio of friends said they remained in touch with each other always and helped each other in taking up the exam.

“We got success only because of hard work and determination”, they said.

Priyank Kishore from Hazaribagh, who is an IPS officer and presently undergoing training in Kerala, also cracked this prestigious exam for the second time ranking 41st.

His father is a Sadar sub divisional police officer.

Priyank ranked 274 in the 2018 UPSC exam and got the IPS delegation. But he always wanted to be an IAS officer so he kept working to secure his current rank.

He had schooled in Jamshedpur, Ranchi and Bokaro where his father was posted as a police officer.

He later went to Delhi and graduated from the Ramjas College.