30 Muslims in UPSC 2012 - 7 of Jamia Millia Islamia, 4 of Zakat Foundation, 1 of Haj Committee of India.

Srinagar - It seems that students from Jammu and Kashmir have taken civil services as primary career choice and cracking All India Civil Services examination is no more a Herculean task for them. J and K has 10 selected only second to Bihar.

New Delhi:Zakat Foundation of India's four candidates have cleared Civil Services exam 2011. They are among the 910 successful candidates whose names were announced on Friday by Union Public Service Commission. One of them Syed Abid Rasheed Shah (of Kashmir) is first among all Muslims selected from whole of India. Shah is ranked 23rd in the list of 910.

ZFI's successful candidatesSyed Abid Rasheed Shah (Jammu & Kashmir)Mohammad Arshi (Uttar Pradesh)Naieem Mustafa Mansury(Rajasthan)Waseem Akram (Uttar Pradesh)

A total of 30 Muslims - one short of their last year's tally have cleared this year's civil services exams results of which were announced by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) today in the afternoon.

Four Muslims Syed Abid Rasheed Shah (rank 23), Nooh P B (rank 43), Md Shariq Badr (rank 48) and Amna Tasneem (rank 73) are in the top 100 positions.

The other 26 are: Syed Sehrish Asgar (118), Inayat Khan (176), Adeela Abdulla (230), Shanavas C (235), Yumkhaibam Sabir (244), Mohd Aijaz (268), Inamulhaq Mengnoo (280), B Fouzia Taranum (307), Mirza Azhar Beig (313), Toufel Tahir (345), Mohammad Imran (408), Mohammad Arshi (419), Bashir Ahmad Bhat (434), Manazir Jeelani Samoon (451), Qazi Mohd Salman Ibrahim (459), Patil Salmantaj Jafertaj (466), Naieem Mustafa Mansury (520), Waseem Akram (568), Irina Masoom (604), Md Imteyaz Alam (649), Afsar Ali (667), Shama Parveen (685), Zeeshan Qamer (706), Mohd Rehan Raza (760), Ilyas K P A (764) and Zahid Parvez (776).

The results are based on the written part of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2011, held by the Union Public Service Commission in October November, 2011 and the interviews for Personality Test held in March-April, 2012.

Shena Aggarwal of Haryana's Yamunanagar town and Rukmani Riar of Punjab's Hoshiarpur town have bagged the top two ranks (No. 1 and 2 respectively), beating male candidates.

Chandigarh's Prince Dhawan secured the third rank in the country and the first among male candidates.

Out of the total 30 Muslim successful candidates 07 students are from Jamia Millia Islamia, 04 are from Zakat Foundation of India and 01 student is from Haj Committee of India. All these institutions are providing special training to the Muslim students for UPSC exams.

Giving details of the Jamia's results, Simi Malhotra, Media Coordinator, Jamia Millia said, "Jamia Millia Islamia is pleased to announce that seven students who have been given training at the Centre for Coaching and Career Planning, Jamia Millia Islamia have secured places in the Civil Services (Main) Examinations, 2011."

She also said that Najeeb Jung, Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia had led the team of the panel that conducted the mock interviews for these candidates.

Jubilations were also seen at Mumbai's Hajj House as one of its students Patil Salmantaj is also in the list of selected candidates. This is the first time a student from Hajj Committee's UPSC coaching centre has cleared the prestigious exams.

"Salman has made everyone of us proud. He is the first student from our centre to clear the UPSC exams", a beaming Dr Hashmi, the Director of the centre, said while talking toummid.com on phone.

As against the last year when 31 Muslims were in the list of a total of 920 successful candidates, this year's list having 910 successful candidates has 30 Muslims. In 2010 among 875 selected candidates 21 were Muslims whereas in 2009, out of the total 791 selected candidates, 31 were Muslims.