New Delhi: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Monday declared the results of Civil Services examination 2022. Top four positions have been bagged by girls. They are Shruti Sharma, Ankita Agarwal, Gamini Singla and Aishwarya Verma.

Shruti is an alumnus of St Stephens College and Jawaharlal Nehru University and has been preparing for UPSC Civil Services exam at Jamia Millia Islamia Residential Coaching Academy. A total of 685 candidates have been shortlisted for IAS, IPS, IFS and many other branches of the Civil Services under the Central government of India.

The toppers have been selected on the basis of their performance in all three rounds – Prelims Exam, Mains Exam and the interview conducted by the UPSC. In 2020, a total number of 761 candidates cleared the UPSC CSE final examination out of which 545 were men and 216 were women. Shubham Kumar was the first place holder in the examination, second was Jagrati Awasthi, and third was Ankita Jain.

Of the successful candidates, 244 are from general category, 73 from Economically Weaker Sections, 203 of Other Backward Classes, 105 Scheduled Castes and 65 from the Scheduled Tribes, said the UPSC in a statement. /BI/