IAS Success Story: IAS Ankur Garg, a 2003 batch officer of the AGMUT cadre, achieved remarkable success by clearing the UPSC exam on his first attempt.
UPSC Success Story: Clearing the UPSC exam is a dream for many aspirants. Every year, lakhs of candidates take the civil services exam, but only a few succeed in becoming IAS, IPS, IFS, or joining other services. Many civil servants clear the UPSC exam after 3-4 attempts. However, some exceptional officers achieve this feat on their first attempt, and at a very young age. One such officer is IAS Ankur Garg, who secured All India Rank (AIR) 1 in the 2002 UPSC CSE at the age of 22.
IAS Ankur Garg, a 2003 batch officer of the AGMUT cadre, was transferred to Arunachal Pradesh from Delhi in June 2022. He topped the UPSC Civil Services exam in 2002 at the age of 22, becoming the youngest candidate to achieve this feat at that time. Clearing the UPSC CSE on his first attempt, he joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with Physics and Chemistry as his optional subjects.
IAS Ankur is originally from Patiala, Punjab. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi with a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (1998-2002). After a gap of 16 years, he pursued a master’s degree in Economics at Harvard University (2018-2020). As a Macroeconomist, he achieved an exceptional score of 171 out of 170. He is married to Swati Sharma, and they have two sons. IAS Ankur frequently shares updates from his personal and professional life on Twitter, where he has amassed a following of 12.4K users.
