Hearing & Speech impaired girl tops UPSC IES exam
She has cracked the exam twice and topped in the second attempt.
Madhya Pradesh’s Shreya Rai has cleared the exam twice. She was unhappy with her rank in the first attempt. The 25-year-old appeared for the UPSC Indian Engineering Services (IES) again in 2020 to obtain the 60th all-India rank, and top among the hearing-impaired category.
Shreya has already cleared recruitment exams for Coal India, Nuclear Power Corporation, and Power Grid of India. Shreya aspired to clear the UPSC exam as she wanted to become a collector.
Her parents had realized her physical constraints when she was only 1.5 years old. Her parents wanted to offer her a “normal childhood and not let her feel inferior". Shreya was not enrolled to a special school and was admitted to Chinmay Mission School which is a mainstream school in Madhya Pradesh.
The 25-year-old claims to have studied 16 hours a day for UPSC exam which finally paid off. Shreya’s UPSC interview round was unique as the board of interviewers asked questions which were displayed on a big screen and Shreya also replied by typing the answers which were shown on the screen.
