While the rest of India can only dream of cracking the Union Public Service Commission
(UPSC) Civil Services Exam, a village in Uttar Pradesh has achieved an amazing feat of having civil servants in almost every other household.
Civil Services Exam (CSE) is deemed as the toughest exam in the country which is aspired to be cracked by millions for less than a thousand vacancies across the country. And Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of Civil Officers than any other state. Particularly Madhopatti village in Jaunpur district has a member in the IAS or PCS cadre.
To be precise, there are a total of 75 houses in this village, but the number of officers is more than 50. These include daughters-in-law as well!
The first civil servant from Madhopatti was Mustafa Hussain, father of well-known poet Wamiq Jaunpuri who joined the civil services in 1914. Thereafter the next civil service rank came to the village in 1952 when Indu Prakash cleared the IAS exam.
The village also holds a unique record of four siblings being selected for UPSC. IAS Vinay Kumar Singh, who cracked civil service in 1955 and retired as chief secretary of Bihar. Singh’s two siblings, Chatrapal Singh and Ajay Kumar Singh cleared the exam in 1964. Chatrapal Singh served as the chief secretary of Tamil Nadu. The fourth brother Shashikant Singh became a civil service official in 1968.
And this is not it. Some youngsters from the village have also found successful careers with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), and The World Bank.
Madhopatti village has three primary schools and a junior high school, two inter colleges. Ever since the 1990s, the children of the village are pushed towards civil services. They start preparing for the examination from the college itself.