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IAS Toppers: Previous Years
IAS Toppers: Being one among the IAS toppers is a matter of great pride. UPSC exams are considered to be one of the prestigious exams in India. On clearing UPSC, candidates will be offered Government positions according to their ranks. The preliminary exam is to be held on June 5, 2022. For the selected candidates, the mains will be conducted on September 16, 2022.
Embibe provides the best study materials for the UPSC preparation according to the requirements of the aspirants. Read along the article to find out more about UPSC topper 2021 list, UPSC topper 2022 criteria, and much more!
Latest: To Check the result of UPSC 2019 – Click here
UPSC Exam and IAS Toppers: Overview
UPSC civil services exam is one of the acclaimed exams and also considered to be the toughest in India. Every year, more than a million candidates appear for the IAS exam and wishes to clear the exam. However, only around 800 – 900 students clear the exam and out of them only the top 100 students are selected for Indian Administrative Services (IAS). You can appreciate the mettle of the successful students by understanding that only one out of a thousand appearing students crack the exam i.e a success ratio of 1/1000, and an average it takes 3 attempts to succeed in the exam.
UPSC Topper 2021 list
1 Shubham Kumar
2 Jagrati Awasthi
3 Ankita Jain
4 Yash Jaluka
5 Mamta Yadav
6 Meera K
7 Praveen Kumar
8 Jivani Karthik Nagjibhai
9 Apal Mishra
10 Satyam Gandhi
IAS toppers Overview: 2019
Being a topper in this exam does not just require luck but a strong dedication, perseverance to stick to your goals and constantly slogging year on year till you achieve the dream.
Some of those who have achieved this rare feat and have excelled in this exam are covered in this article.
UPSC has released the final result for 2019 Civil Services Exam. This year 829 students have been recommended for the civil services post. The category wise break up is given below:
This year Pradeep Singh has topped the civil services exam followed by Jatin Kishore with AIR 2. Pratibha Verma is the topper among women with AIR 3. The list of top 10 students is given in the table below.
The list of Toppers for IAS 2019 exams is given below
| Rank | Name |
| 1 | Pradeep Singh |
| 2 | Jatin Kishore |
| 3 | Pratibha Verma |
| 4 | Himanshu Jain |
| 5 | Jeydev C S |
| 6 | Vishakha Yadav |
| 7 | Ganesh Kumar Baskar |
| 8 | Abhishek Saraf |
| 9 | Ravi Jain |
| 10 | Sanjita Mohapatra |
List of IAS Toppers
Below we have given the tabular representation of the IAS toppers enlisting the names of the 1st rank holders. The list given below is year wise and also consist of the names of the respective state that the candidates belong to.
IAS Toppers – 1st rank holders (from 1972 to 2018)
| Topper (1st rank holders) | Sate | Year |
| Kanishka Kataria | Rajasthan | 2018 |
| Anudeep Durishetty | Telangana | 2017 |
| Nanini | Karnataka | 2016 |
| Tina Dabi | Delhi | 2015 |
| Ira Singhal | Delhi | 2014 |
| Gaurav Agrawal | Rajasthan | 2013 |
| Haritha V Kumar | Kerala | 2012 |
| Shena Aggarwal | Haryana | 2011 |
| S Divyadharsini | Tamil Nadu | 2010 |
| Shah Faesal | Jammu & Kashmir | 2009 |
| Shubhra Saxena | Uttar Pradesh | 2008 |
| Adapa Karthik | Andhra Pradesh | 2007 |
| Mutyalaraju Revu | Andhra Pradesh | 2006 |
| Mona Pruthi | Haryana | 2005 |
| S Nagarajan | Tamil Nadu | 2004 |
| Roopa Mishra | Odisha | 2003 |
| Ankur Garg | Punjab | 2002 |
| Alok Ranjan Jha | Bihar | 2001 |
| Vijaylakshmi Bidari | Karnataka | 2000 |
| Sorabh Babu | Uttar Pradesh | 1999 |
| Bhawna Garg | Punjab | 1998 |
| Devesh Kumar | Bihar | 1997 |
| Sunil Kumar Barnwal | Bihar | 1996 |
| Iqbal Dhaliwal | Tamil Nadu | 1995 |
| Asutosh Jindal | Delhi | 1994 |
| Srivatsa Krishna | Karnataka | 1993 |
| Shri Anurag Srivastava | Uttar Pradesh | 1992 |
| Raju Narayana Swamy | Kerala | 1991 |
| Lakshmi Narayana | Andhra Pradesh | 1990 |
| Shashi Prakash Goyal | Uttar Pradesh | 1989 |
| Prashant Kumar | Bihar | 1988 |
| Amir Subhani | Bihar | 1987 |
| Dr. Hrishikesh Panda | Odisha | 1979 |
| Javed Usmani | Uttar Pradesh | 1977 |
| Bhaskar Balakrishnan | Maharashtra | 1974 |
| Nirupama Rao | Kerala | 1973 |
| Duvvuri Subbarao | Andra Pradesh | 1972 |
IAS Toppers in First Attempt
There are a rare few who attempts to take up UPSC civil services exam and make it to the top list of selected candidates in their vary first attempt. The below given list enlists the names of the students who managed to crack the IAS exam in their first attempt.
IAS First Attempt Toppers (from 1999 to 2018)
| Name | Rank | Year |
| Kanishak Kataria | 1 | 2018 |
| Shreyans Kumat | 4 | 2018 |
| Srushti Jayant Deshmukh | 5 | 2018 |
| Koya Sree Harsha | 6 | 2017 |
| Saumya Sharma | 9 | 2017 |
| Dr. Neha Jain | 12 | 2017 |
| Anmol Sher Singh Bedi | 2 | 2016 |
| Saumya Pandey | 4 | 2016 |
| Kothamasu Dinesh Kumar | 6 | 2016 |
| Tina Dabi | 1 | 2015 |
| Artika Shukla | 4 | 2015 |
| Renu Raj | 2 | 2014 |
| Saketa Raja Musinipally | 14 | 2014 |
| Ananya Das | 16 | 2014 |
| Ajay Kumar Dwivedi | 17 | 2014 |
| C M Saikanth Varma | 18 | 2014 |
| Aman Mittal | 20 | 2014 |
| Bharti Dixit | 5 | 2013 |
| Roman Saini | 18 | 2013 |
| Amrutesh Aurangabadkar | 10 | 2011 |
| Shah Faesal | 1 | 2009 |
| Roopa Mishra | 1 | 2003 |
| Ankur Garg | 1 | 2002 |
| Sorabh Babu Maheshwari | 1 | 2000 |
| Bhawna Garg | 1 | 1999 |
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