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Central Excise Inspector selected for IAS

TIOL-DDT 2377
18.06.2014
Wednesday

"SURESH Kumar Ola, an Inspector of Central Excise in the Service Tax Division of Ajmer, Rajasthan has made his tribe proud. Shortly he will be an IAS officer. He secured 41st rank in the merit list of the Civil Services Examination results announced last week. 90 candidates from the open category have been selected for IAS out of a total of 1122 candidates selected for the Civil Services.

BL Meena, President of the Rajasthan Circle Central Excise Inspectors Association who helped us in tracking down Suresh Ola was excited and very proud of the achievement of his colleague.

Born to Mr. Gopal Lal Ola and Mrs. Keshar Devi at Doongri Kalan village of Jaipur, Suresh was a bright student and very early in life got through a competitive examination for admission into Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Paota, Jaipur. Two other former students of this school made it into the Civil Services this year.

Even a job is nothing new for Suresh. After completing his MBA, Suresh worked in Nokia as Assistant Manager and later in Bank of Baroda as a probationary officer before joining Central Excise as Inspector. Suresh says he received great support from Ajmer Assistant Commissioner AK Singh and Superintendents Meena, Ashutish Loomba and Vinod Basheta. He is grateful to his seniors in the Department from whom he learnt many things and was able to face the interview successfully as the interview centred around his working in Central Excise and Service Tax.

Suresh loves playing cricket and reading novels. It was a great pleasure to talk to this young man who is already into his fourth job - and one of the most coveted and envied of jobs in India.

TIOL wishes Suresh a great career ahead. Maybe he should become the Revenue Secretary - if the post is not abolished by then.

The MoS in the Ministry Dr. Jitendra Singh has congratulated all the successful candidates."