Thirtyfive-year-old Kulwant Singh from Dhuri, who has made it to the civil services in his sixth and final attempt, is the only candidate to have been successful after giving his examination in Punjabi.
For this Income Tax inspector, currently serving in Shimla, the journey has been a long one. "There were trying times. But I did not give up and achieved my goal step by step", he says. Kulwant, whose father is a Class IV Railway employee, studied at a Jawahar Navodaya school. After doing his engineering from Shaheed Bhagat Singh Engineering College, Ferozepur,