Jaswanth Chandra of Kakinada shifted his placement to 23rd rank in the recent Civil Services Examination, a number that finally secures his slot in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). He is currently an active trainee at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad, having already cleared the gates for the police branch in a previous cycle. This latest result ends a multi-year loop of repetitive testing and resignation from lower-tier bureaucratic rungs.
Jaswanth Chandra moves from IPS (162nd rank) to IAS (23rd rank).
His history shows a jagged climb: 314th rank (Postal Service, resigned), 51st rank (Forest Service), and a qualification for Railway Management.
The exam remains a bottleneck; only 958 names were pulled for recommendation from the mass of aspirants this round.
The Grinding Path of Ranks
The movement of a single person through the UPSC layers reveals a specific obsession with hierarchy. Chandra’s record is a list of discarded titles in search of the highest one.
| Year | Output Rank | Service Branch | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Failed | Mains Stage | Stopped |
| 2021 | 314 | Postal Service | Resigned |
| 2022 | 51 / IRMS | Forest / Railway | Passed Over |
| 2023 | 162 | IPS | Current Training |
| Current | 23 | IAS | Target Met |
Italics suggest that while the state celebrates these "successes," the cycle forces candidates to keep testing even after they have already secured high-level government roles, leaving previous seats empty or in flux.
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Background and Structural Pressure
Chandra’s path was shaped by a mix of high-value technical training and local familial ghosts. He studied Computer Science at IIT Kanpur, a factory for high-earning labor. He reportedly walked away from a ₹50 lakh salary offer from Samsung to join the state’s sorting machine.
"His father… passed away five years ago… her husband had wished that their son should become an IAS officer."
The drive is fueled by these domestic expectations. His mother, G. Nagalakshmi, works as an English assistant in a rural high school, while his late father, Manikyala Rao, and grandfather, Laxman Rao (a physical director at a medical college), represent a family lineage deeply embedded in the public sector's social ladder.
Initial schooling at Ashram Public School, Kakinada.
Intermediate studies in Hyderabad.
Consistent re-testing while holding existing government positions.
The Broader Sorting Result
Around 30 candidates from the Telugu-speaking regions mirrored this movement into the civil services. While names like Gudelli Srujana (Rank 55) and Sai Krishna (Rank 125) appear in the top lists, the system remains heavy with provisional results and withheld names.
The mechanism continues to reward those who can survive the meat-grinder of the syllabus multiple times. For Chandra, the 23rd rank is not just a job; it is the final exit from the testing room.