Belgaum lad Venkatesh Dhotre has secured 653 All India rank in the UPSC exam results announced on Thursday.
He completed schooling from St. Xavier’s High School, Belgaum and later completed PUC Science from GSS College, Belgaum. He completed his engineering from PESIT, Bangalore in Electronics and Communication stream.
This was his third attempt and he is happy with the results, but also said that he could have much better.
Along with the preparation for UPSC he was helping his father in his business, before which he worked for Ittiam Systems, Bangalore for some time. He took initial guidance from coaching classes in Delhi.
Venkatesh would miss the top 3 services as per his rank but is eleigible for Central Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’.
Congratulations to Venkatesh.