LBSNAA’s Himalayan trek “a metaphor for life”; 5 lessons for officer trainees

Challenges and Opportunities

FOR those who think the Himalayan trek, a mandatory activity for civil service probationers of Mussoorie academy, a mere outing, here are some thoughts from an IAS probationer of 2012 batch. Harshika Singh writes in an internal publication of Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) that the Himalayan trek is truly a metaphor for life. After eight-day-long trekking, she comes back “battered, bruised and browned” but with a few learning lessons. Here are those:

Meet UPSC topper Harshika who is fascinated by cars with red beacons

THE list of highlights that department of personnel and training on Friday released immediately after UPSC results included the following: An alumnus of London School of Economics also figures in the top 25. She is Harshika Singh, 27-year-old girl from Ranchi, the hometown of Indian cricketing icon MS Dhoni. But her passion is not cricket but “economics, anthropology, world affairs and administration”. In her Twitter she wrote: