Saturday, March 24, 2012

Greatness of India!!!

Recently, I had been on a whirlwind tour of the state on different attachments with different departments. Irrigation, Forest and tribal attachments were what we saw. What impressed me the most and created a different view of understanding the nation is our irrigation attachment. I was one of those freaks who would be glued to the Discovery channel and would be amazed at the engineering marvel of the foreign nations and be overawed at the tunnels they built or the dams they built.

But once I went to Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, I felt the humbleness of the mason who put the stones which built this massive structure. I could feel the massive bamboo cascades, ramps which used to push the stones into the dam. Each stone weighed not less than one tonne and they had to be stacked as approved by the geologist. This would not have been a pleasant work nearly half a century ago when this dam was built. The engineer who designed the dam, the supervisors who checked that the work was upto the mark and the mason who put the bricks are all to be commended for the work they did in bringing the engineering marvel to us what we see now as the nagarjuna sagar dam.... Once inside the galleries of the dam, I felt the massiveness of concrete surrounding me....

Once in the veligonda Project, the train ride was 5 Km long and i could witness the massive Tunnel Boring Machine at work which extracted mud and stone out of the solid hills from which it was carving the tunnel. What I had dreamt of seeing in the foreign channels, I could witness with my own eyes...

I could not but stop amazed at the engineering marvels we have and we continued to build. I Just had thought that I could not understand the engineering marvels of the sate just becuase none of our media or for that matter the foreign channels also had not shown what we had one...Friends India is great...

Mera Bharat Mahan...

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

prelims

Many people say that the preparation for prelims is short spanned and exclusive from the mains..... I would like to differ with them...

To say my decision to take civil services as my career was done over a cup of coffee with my parents. Initially i wanted to make money like any other student and do a super speciality in medicine or if something different wanted to take the MBA from any premier B school...

But as fate would have it, I was motivated by my father with n number of examples to divert towards the civil services.then i was scouting for someone who had some basic knowledge of the examination.. I forgot that a repository of civil services examination was in the room above me. His name is Vamsi krishna. He is my senior from Kurnool Medical College. He was the one who introduced me to world of civils. It was him who recognised the talent in me to move towards the civils.

Initially i Wanted to take History as my optional subject as i loved the subject. Love is Blind as an old saying goes. i started my Preparation with vk agnihotri book. Days passed by, and i used to allocate just one or half an hour a day to the exam preparation. But the syllabus would not melt. Vk Agnihotri used to threaten me. Hence i took a decision to take Public Administration as the optional in place of the Anthropology.

from my Third year of medicine, i started preparing for the examination. I used to read one or half an hour a day including the news papers. Coming to the news papers, i would feel that, every civil aspirant need to have a view of two compulsory news papers, they are Hindu and The times of india. Former for news and the latter for Views....

and by the end of final year, i was able to get a glimpse of the entire subject. Albeit i was not strong in the subject, at least i was well versed with the names of the topics. There was a day when i had gone to Hyderabad to get the basic books of my subjects and general studies. The RC Reddy Study circle area was teeming with civil service aspirants and i was afraid to see all of them at one place. And then it was Vamsi who gave me the source of Inspiration. He told me to give attempt and be careful of the same as i was having only four attempts in my hand. 

Managing both my internship duties and studying for the examination was tiring and straining on my body as well as my mind. I used to have sleep for 6-8 hours a day. Rest of my time was spent either doing my duties or studying. It was gods grace that i could complete my duties easilty with the help of my friends and teachers. They could understand me well even if i could not answer one or two questions. 

And There came a point when i said QUITS... i decided to leave my internship duties and take an extension for two months. I then prepared whole heartedly for the examination...

AS for as my preparation pattern is concerned...
for Genral studies...
lakshmikanth for polity
dutt and sudnaram for indian economy
khullar for indian geography
atlas, internet for world geography
vk agnihotri, krishna reddy for indian history
tata mc grawhill and pearson genral studies manuals
tata mc grawhill science and technology material
vajiram and ravi current affairs notes
wizard current affairs for prelims
etc and etc...

for public administration

lakshmikanth,
s chand public administration book
administrative thinkers by prasad and prasad
nicholas henry 
Rao IAS postal coaching material..

I had planned i a way that i was to complete one single reading of the entire syllabus by december and had to put multiple reivisons of the same and eliminate unnecessary material during the same period. By the time of the Prelims Examination I was confident enough of public admnistration but i Had no view of the general studies and what my fate would be...

I felt that i had done reasonably well in the Prelims examination...
on referring to multiple keys... i found that i had score 80+ in General Studies and 70+ in Public administration...


hence i was confident that i would make it to the Mains...

At last i started blogging...

lo guys.... here i am ... blogging has become the funda of the day... all the stars and celebrities have joined the bandwagon of bloggers. then why should i miss the train.

to tell about me...
my name is narayana bharath gupta. i have recently been in the limelight for having been selected into the IAS by scoring a rank of 17th all india wide and standing top in my state.

coming to my academics.... i have done my schooling in my native place called Gooty r.s. which is in anantapur district of andhra pradesh. i passed my tenth class with a percentage of 93 from kendriya vidyalaya. Now its the moment to say about my Anantapur district. Its the largest district in Andhra Pradesh and has the record of having the second least rainfall in India after some districts in Rajasthan.

Having completed my schooling I joined the Intermediate coaching in Sri Chaitanya vijayawada. I completed my two years of Intermediate with 96% and then qualified to the medical college by having passed the entrance examination with 265 rank in the very first attempt.

Then coming to my Medicine where i took the decision of joining the civil services examination..... i did it in the Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool. Its one of the oldest medical colleges in Andhra with a glorious history of more than half a century. With a good patient inflow we had a great exposure to number of diseases. Having seen all the problems of the patients i decided that it would be better if I would be an Admnistrator rather than a Doctor who would be confined to an urban area. Hence i shifted my aim towards the civil services examination.....