Bengaluru (IANS) : The son of a bus driver is also among the 25 young men and women from Karnataka who passed the UPSC exam. Son of a bus driver with the state transport company, Siddalingappa K. Pujar has secured 589th rank in the Civil Services Examination, 2022. Siddalingappa, who hails from Annigeri town near Dharwad, comes from a poor background and took his exams through Kannada medium. His mother Shantavva said she had no idea about her son appearing for the UPSC exam.
“I didn’t know he had appeared for the UPSC exam. I am proud that he cleared the extremely difficult exam and made Dharwad district proud,” he said. Siddalingappa’s father, a bus driver, said, “We never thought that he was studying so well while doing a job. We could not help him due to lack of money, yet he achieved a feat. Proud of my son. I work in a farm and drive a transport corporation bus.”