Daily wage labourer's daughter achieves UPSC success after 3 attempts
Success in the Fourth Attempt
S Aswathy did not give up after failing the UPSC three times and secured 481st rank in her fourth attempt.
Daily Wage Laborer's Daughter Becomes IAS
Aswathy from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, decided in the eighth grade that she would become an IAS officer. Her father was a daily wage laborer and her mother a homemaker.
Quit her job in 2017
Aswathy got a job at TCS during engineering, but she quit in 2017 to prepare for UPSC.
Secured 481st Rank
She failed in the first three attempts but did not give up. Finally, she got selected in 2020 and secured 481st rank.