Family of Jharkhand lady who claimed cracking UPSC apologises for ‘inadvertent error’

By PTI

RAMGARH: The household of Divya Pandey, 24, who claimed she had cracked the civil companies examination in her maiden try, on Friday apologised to the district administration and Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL), each of which felicitated her, in addition to media for furnishing misguided data of her success and stated it was an “inadvertent error”.

Conveying apologies on behalf of Divya Pandey (24), her relations in addition to her neighbours stated that it’s really one Divya P of South India and never Divya Pandey who cracked the UPSC examination securing 323rd rank.

Priyadarshni Pandey, elder sister of Divya Pandey stated her sister was knowledgeable by her buddy in Uttar Pradesh that she had cracked UPSC securing AIR 323rd rank and “we tried to check result on UPSC website but internet was not working. It was an inadvertent error.”

The household’s claims of Divya Pandey’s cracking of UPSC with the assistance of smartphone and web with none skilled teaching in her first try had led to the Central Coalfields Ltd Chairman cum Managing Director, PM Prasad and different senior officers felicitating Divya Pandey as her father was a retired crane operator from CCL.

The claims had received widespread media protection.

Deputy Commissioner, Ramgarh, Madhavi Mishra who too had felicitated Divya Pandey at her workplace within the district collectorate termed it a “human error”.

The Ramgarh officers support that they had not taken any motion towards the lady or her household on this connection.

The relations claimed that there was no intention of spreading faux information or false claims and added that after discovering out the reality Divya, a resident of Rajrappa colony underneath Chitarpur block of Jharkhand’s Ramgarh district has left for Delhi.

“We apologise for this blunder,” they stated.

Chandreshwar Singh, space secretary of Coalfields Majdoor Union affiliated to Hind Majdoor Sabha and Divya’s neighbour stated that because of web failure the household couldn’t confirm the data given by a UP-based buddy of the lady and her success story went viral.

Divya, who had graduated from Ranchi University in 2017 had claimed: “I put in around 18 hours of study on a daily basis and read a lot of National Council of Education Research (NCERT) books.”

Her father Jagdish Prasad Pandey, who retired in 2016 as a crane operator of Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) had claimed that the success and arduous work of his daughter had paid off.