Stories
Four siblings from a two-room house beat all odds to become IAS and IPS officers
- •Four children of Anil Mishra from Lalganj town in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh achieved extraordinary success against financial struggles.
- •Software engineer Yogesh Mishra quit his high-paying job in 2013 to understand the UPSC exam pattern and guide his struggling sisters, clearing the exam in his very first attempt to become an IAS officer.
- •Inspired and guided by Yogesh, his sister Madhavi Mishra cleared the UPSC exam in 2014 with All India Rank 62 and became an IAS officer.
- •Younger brother Lokesh Mishra secured All India Rank 44 in the 2015 UPSC exam and joined the IAS.
- •Younger sister Kshama Mishra also cleared the 2015 exam with All India Rank 172 to become an IPS officer, making all four siblings civil servants.
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Yogesh Mishra left his secure and high-paying software engineering job in Noida to understand the UPSC paper pattern, syllabus, and exam nuances so he could properly guide and support his sisters who were struggling to clear the civil services exam.
After Yogesh cleared the exam to become an IAS officer in 2013, his sister Madhavi Mishra secured All India Rank 62 as an IAS officer in 2014. In 2015, younger brother Lokesh Mishra secured All India Rank 44 as an IAS officer, and younger sister Kshama Mishra secured All India Rank 172 to join the Indian Police Service.
The Mishra family hails from Lalganj town in the Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, where their father Anil Mishra worked as a rural bank manager and lived with his family in a two-room house.
