UPSC topper Tina Dabi to be joining Rajasthan Cadre and not her first choice of Haryana

Mumbai, July 26: Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) topper, Tina Dabi, will serve in Rajasthan and not in Haryana which was her first choice. Dabi had chosen Haryana as her first choice because she wanted to focus on women’s empowerment.

“We all know the sex ratio of girl and boy child is quite less and that is why I would like to contribute my efforts for the empowerment of women there (in Haryana),” an elated Dabi had told media after the UPSC announced its results for the year 2015 exam.

According to a 2011 census, Haryana had a sex ratio of 879 females to every 1000 males against the national average of 943. Rajasthan which scores a better sex ratio of 923 is however still below the national average. This should satisfactory news for the political science graduate who is ardent advocate of gender equality.

The government allocated Tina Dabi and the two other candidates Athar Aamir Ul Shafi Khan and Jasmeet Singh Sandhu – who respectively came second and third in the civil services examination, to the Rajasthan cadre of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

Son of a school teacher from Anantnag district in Jammu and Kashmir, Athar Aamir Ul Shafi Khan too wanted to serve his state. But a good academic score does not guarantee one its choice of state.

The allocation of the cadre ; a state or a group of small states and union territories – is a complex amalgamation of various factors ranging from the vacancies, quotas and whether the candidate hails from the same state (which defines the candidate an Insider) or from a different state (Outsider).

Each state cadre is required to have two outsiders for every insider officer.

Dabi lost her chance of being allocated the Haryana cadre because there were only two vacancies in the state. And both were for scheduled tribe candidates while Dabi is from a scheduled caste.

Khan too could not get his home cadre because the two vacancies in Jammu and Kashmir were earmarked for Outsiders, one was an general slot and the second, reserved for an OBC candidate.