Anshuman Kamila, who is aged 26 and hails from Bhubaneswar, has topped the Indian Economic Services examinations for 2019, the results for which were declared by the Union Public Service Commission on Friday.
Anshuman is the only son of Santosh Kumar Kamila, the chief postmaster general of Odisha, and Mitali Chinara, who heads the Applied Economics department of Utkal University. He was also the state topper from the class XII Science examinations that were conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Before topping the IES exam, Anshuman was posted as a manager in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
After completing his B.A. in economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, Anshuman pursued his masters from Delhi School of Economics and moved on to attain an MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), before being posted in the RBI.
Anshuman mentioned that he had cleared the coveted exam in his third attempt. “I could not do well in my first attempt and failed in scoring big in the main examination of IES. Though I cleared the examination in the second attempt, I failed to get into the merit list for one mark. I feel happy that this time, I became the topper”,he said.