At least three candidates from Bidar have cleared UPSC civil services examination.
R.S. Vidyavati is a doctor, Mahesh Wadde is an engineer while Prashant Channagond is an agriculture scientist.
About Mahesh Wadde
Mahesh Wadde is an alumni of the prestigious National Institute of Technology Karnataka in Suratkal. He turned down an offer by an MNC during campus placement and headed to New Delhi for coaching in a professional institute for the civil service examinations. His father Baburao Wadde is a farmer in Talwad – K village in Bhalki taluk. “Schooling in the Air Force School in Bidar and the Sainik School in Vijaypura was the foundation on which my academic habits were cultivated,” he said.
IAS was a childhood dream for him. He plans to appear for the examination again to improve his rank. His advice to aspirants is to focus on the proper utilization of time in preparing for examination. “It does not matter how long you study. What is important is how well you utilized your time,” he said. Mahesh Wadde got 1,201 rank in UPSC.
About R.S. Vidyavati
R.S. Vidyavati, a KAS officer of the 2010 batch, has cleared the UPSC civil services examinations with an all India rank of 1,027. The medical graduate from Mysore Medical College is serving as the Assistant Commissioner, Bidar. She has earlier served as the principal of the district training institute and Tahsildar of Aurad.
She is proud about two things - She comes from a backward community in which most girls do not continue education beyond school, and that she passed the examination after seven years of marriage. Her husband is in State Government service. She hails from Kalaburgi and her father is a principal in the Government PU College there. She studied at the St. Joseph’s convent in Kalaburgi till PUC before going to Mysore.
Her advice to the young is, “Believe in your dream and keep working hard. Never let temporary failures hold you back”.
About Prashant Channagond
Prashant Channagond is working on his PhD in entomology at the Indian council of agriculture research in New Delhi. He hails from Dhannura-R in Humnabad taluk. He has got an all India rank of 1,104. His father Kashinath Channagond is a primary school teacher.
He studied Post-Graduate agriculture science from University of agriculture sciences, Dharwad where he earned 10 gold medals in final year. His primary schooling was in the Government primary school in his village, and Dr. Ambedkar School and Lakshmi Venkateshwar School in Humanbad. But he credits the multi-cultural environment in the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya School for moulding his personality. It instilled habits like hard work and team work, made me open up to different cultures and languages and helped me grow into an independent being, he said.
