Gave up Infosys job to serve the country
For H.G. Darshana Kumar, the decision to quit a well-paying job at Infosys wasn바카라t an easy one, given the odds against clearing a civil services entrance. He바카라d been working for six years, including two years in Seattle. Kumar바카라s folks own a four-acre farmland in Haralakatte, a village in Karnataka바카라s Arsikere바카라a mostly rain-fed region where agriculture isn바카라t often viable. Kumar recalls a time when his father worked as a security guard in Bangalore.
Now, Kumar, 31, has cracked the UPSC examination in his fouth attempt, ranking 594. Kumar credits his success to a small peer group which studied together바카라he is the lone success among a dozen-odd who took the exams in Kannada.
Choosing a vernacular langauge comes with its own challenges, he points out. Since Hindi has a large user base, study material is easily available. 바카라We do not have these resources,바카라 he says. 바카라So, it바카라s a double task. You need to first read it in English and then translate it.바카라 Besides, guidance is not easily available. Kumar바카라s study group has created Telegram and YouTube channels to help aspirants with study material.
For Kumar, the drive to be in the civil services came quite late. 바카라It was a culmination of several inspirational stories,바카라 he says. A few years earlier, in 2011, he had volunteered with the Infosys Foundation in its initiative to construct toilets in Gulbarga. Later, he read about an IAS officer who had built one lakh toilets under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. 바카라Being a government servant, you can do so many things. .바카라
In the four years of preparation and exams, Kumar also set up a dairy farm in Haralakatte, which he hopes will inspire others.
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