New Delhi, June 22 -- Union Minister Jitendra Singh said that the last 11 years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw the democratisation of Civil Services with the democratisation of youth aspiration.

While at one time, the IAS and Civil Services were confined only to a handful of states like Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Jitendra Singh pointed out that toppers are coming from the states that earlier hardly figured in the civil services list toppers from Punjab, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.

He cited the case of Parsanjit Kour, the young girl from Poonch, a border district in J&K, who made it to All India Rank 11 in the Civil Services Exam of 2022 on the very first attempt or the boy from Punjab, Anmol Sher Singh Bedi who was All India ...