by Alifiya Naseem for BISMumbai

Don Bosco Academy Alirajpur celebrated the achievement of Radika Gupta, an alumnus, after she cleared the UPSC exams. The management, staff, and the students of classes X and XII felicitated her in the school campus.

Gupta, a focused and consistent student from her school days joined DBA in 2005 and topped the school in the SSC examination. She completed her graduation in Mechanical Engineering in 2017-18 and worked with Honda Cars at Noida for a year before completely dedicating herself to appearing for the Civil Services examinations. She cleared the UPSC exams in her 1st attempt and was posted as a Class 1 officer at Vadodara [Western Railway]. In 2020 [results in 2021] she secured AIR18 [All India Rank 18], after reappearing for the UPSC examination and interview.

During her interaction with the students, she shared her mantra of success. She motivated the students to dream big and work hard towards achieving their goals. She was accompanied by her proud parents Shri Prahlad Gupta, Smt. Chanda Gupta, and cousin Shri. Madhav Gupta.