Bhopal: Twenty-six students of the Jaipur-based Crescent Academy have successfully cleared the Mains
Exam of the IAS Examination, 2011, the results of which were
declared recently.
These aspirants who have passed the examination are now a step
away from their cherished goal of becoming topmost bureaucrats of
the country if they are lucky enough to overcome the hurdle of the
final stage of Interview.
Till date the Crescent Academy, in spite of limited infrastructure
and resources, has been able to produce more than 62 IAS, IPS,
IFS, IRS, Judges and State Civil Servants throughout the country.
Out of this 41 were selected in the IAS cadre while 21 in the
State Civil Services Examination.
In the IAS cadre in the year 2010 ten candidates were selected
from the Crescent Academy of which one was a Muslim. In 2009 nine
were selected of which three were Muslims. In 2008 nine Muslims
out of ten were selected to be IAS officers. In 2007, 2006 and
2005 six (four Muslims), three (two Muslims) & three (two Muslims)
were selected.
Meanwhile, in the State Civil Services Examination out of 21
selected candidates so there have been 15 Muslims.
It may be mentioned here that Crescent Academy is run by an
educational welfare trust registered under the Society
Registration Act of 1860. Crescent Academy is a division of M. A.
R. Educational Trust, established with a vision of providing
proper guidance and training to the Civil Services aspirants with
special emphasis on creating a sound academic environment. It was
started, over a decade ago, by Maulana Mohammed Fazlur Rahim
Mujaddidi, a great spiritual personality, academician and social
activist of north India.
According to Maulana Mujaddidi, who is also a member of the
Consultative Group for Empowerment of Minorities, Planning
Commission of India, the new aspirants who want to appear in the
examination of the elite services can visit the Crescent Academy’s
website www.cacademy.org for details.
It may be pointed out here that Prof. Ziaul Hasan, retired
Principle of Aligarh Muslim University Polytechnic, Aligarh and
Mr. Mohammad Iqbal Khan, Director of Crescent Academy, Delhi, are
the pathfinders of establishing, guiding and training the
aspirants of various competitive examinations countrywide. They
have lent their long academic and administrative experience of
producing various Civil and Judicial servants for the services of
the nation, And, it is a matter of pride that the Academy has
succeeded in achieving its objective in such a short span of
time.
(pervezbari@eth.net)
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