By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: Fourteen students of Delhi-based Crescent Academy have been selected in the IAS (Indian Administrative Services) mains examination 2014.
As many as 28 students of the Crescent Academy were successful at the prelims (first stage) of the IAS examination.
The Academy, with its limited infrastructure and resources but through its innovative-cum-interactive sessions and consistent test practices has been able to produce more than 125 IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS, judges and state civil servants throughout the country.
This success is the result of resolute efforts, benefaction and enthusiastic support of Hazrat Maulana Mohammad Fazlur Rahim Mujaddidi.
Earlier, in the IAS cadre in 2013 four candidates were selected from the Crescent Academy while in 2012 13; in 2011 the number was 15 while in 2010, it was 10. Similarly, nine in 2009 and 10 in 2008 were selected to be IAS officers. In 2007 six, in 2006 and 2005 three each were selected. While, in the state civil services examinations, 21 candidates have been selected so far.
It may be pointed out here that Crescent Academy is a division of Maulana Abdur Rahim 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 Mujaddidi, a great spiritual personality, academician and social activist.
It is the primary objective of the academy to prepare the students for cracking this exam along with inculcating in them moral and human values so that they may prove themselves as unbiased, humane and efficient bureaucrats and administrators.
According to Maulana Mujaddidi, the new aspirants who want to appear in the examination of the elite services can visit the Crescent Academy’s website for details.
Professor Ziaul Hasan, retired Principle of Aligarh Muslim University Polytechnic, Aligarh and 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.