Welcome to BITS2IAS initiative!

The Indian Civil Services is considered as the backbone of India and carries great respect and responsibilities. Even though corporate jobs offer lucrative salaries with incentives, a majority of youngsters still compete and crave entry into the prestigious Indian Civil Services held by the UPSC. The very fact that a big share of every year’s top posts in the UPSC exams are bagged by professionals from various streams shows the IAS is still the dream job of many – BITSians are no exceptions :)

Below is the list of BITSian UPSC rank holders for 2009 –

• 40 - KARTIKEYA MISRA
• 62 - MALA SRIVASTAVA
• 294 - ERANKI VENKATA BHASKAR
• 323 - LAKSHMI NARAYANAN R
• 429 - VINAY KUMAR KANTHETI
• 464 - PRAVEEN S
• 575 - K V S R K KISHORE
• 667 - LAYA MADDURI
• 676 - M PADMA

For future aspirants - "bits-to-ias" google group initiative was started by S.Nagarajan (AIR-1 in 2004) which addresses all the queries related to preparation, choice of subjects and other miscellaneous topics related to civil services. So, we sincerely urge all the aspirants to make best use of this forum to get their strategy worked out with the help of BITSian-Officers in service and fellow BITSian-aspirants. Incase, you are not an aspirant - please spread a word about this group among your peers, so that maximum potential can be leveraged in long run.