Tapasya Parihar (IAS 2017)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tapasya Parihar

• She belongs to a joint family, her uncle Vinayak Parihar is a social worker and her grandmother Devkunwar Parihar was the President of Narasimhapur Panchayat (Madhya Pradesh).

• Tapasya is a village girl and her father Vishwas Parihar is a farmer.

• She was a topper in the 10th and 12th standards at her school Kendriya Vidyalaya, Narisinghpur.

• After completing her LLB at the India Law Society’s Law School, Pune, she started preparing for the UPSC exam in Delhi.

• She passed the UPSC (Civil Services Examination 2017) in her second attempt and got 23rd rank in all India.

• Tapasya gives the credit of her success to her parents and uncle who always supported her.

• According to her, she was an average student in studies but always believed in hard work.

• In an interview, she revealed the fact that she always tried to command the subject that she studied.

• As per the opinion of Tapasya, she used to study 8 to 10 hours daily, and the keys to her success are hard work, discipline, and honesty.

• As a civil servant, she wants to strengthen the economic conditions of the farmers in her area and dreams of a developed rural India in future.