IAS Topper Gaurav Agrawal: 10 things you may like to know about this Jaipur boy

LAST Friday, 29-year-old Gaurav Agrawal was joined by his father and wife in Hyderabad to celebrate a special moment. Agrawal, now on probation in the city's Sardar Vallabhbhai National Academy of Police, secured the first position in civil service examination 2013. Here are 10 things you may like to know about the IAS topper:
1. Agrawal becomes the first person from the state of Rajasthan to bag the first position in civil services examination.
2. He secured 244th rank last year managing to get IPS, and joined Sardar Vallabhbhai National Academy of Police in Hyderabad last year.
3. He is a B Tech from IIT-Kanpur and did management in finance from IIM-Lucknow.
4. He worked as an investment banker in Hong Kong before deciding to quit the high-profile job to plunge into UPSC examinations.
5. He worked for about six years abroad.
6. He cracked IAS, his first preference, in his second attempt.
7. A believer of hard-work and perseverance, Agrawal feels there is no substitute to hard-work.
8. His father SC Gupta is a manager in Jaipur dairy. And mother Suman Gupta is a homemaker.
9. Agrawal’s wife is a doctor by profession.
10. An avowed cricket follower, Agrawal is a die-hard fan of Virat Kohli.
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