KAS officer clears UPSC mains

R.S. Vidyavati, a KAS officer of the 2010 batch, has cleared the UPSC civil services examinations with an all-India rank of 1027.

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 Aurad tahsildar.

Vidyavati said she was proud of two things – that she came from a backward community in which most girls don’t continue education beyond school, and that she passed the examination after seven years of marriage. She hails from Kalaburgi and her father is a principal in the government

PU college there.

Her advice to the young is: `` Believe in your dream and keep working

hard. Never let temporary failures hold you back’’.