Omkar Shendure is one of the persons who has scaled this threshold, Born on 12th January 1986. He holds a B.E. (Civil Engineering) from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli and M-Tech (Structural Dynamics) from IIT Roorkee. He is currently working as an Executive Engineer (Civil) class One Officer at Water Resource Dept. Govt. of Maharashtra who has secured the 4th rank in Maharashtra (MPSC 2011 Exam). Formerly, got selected as Assistant Engineer (Grade I) in MPSC 2009. He was engaged in preparing for the GATE exam while working with FLSmidth Design Pvt Ltd, Mumbai and along with job he secured 97.54 % (AIR 210) in GATE 2009. During his M-tech @ IIT Roorkee he started preparing for public service examinations. The toughest part of civil service preparations was to make great sacrifices of time, and sometimes giving up on social life. It entailed tremendous isolation, while he studied for 10-12 hours a day. His motivation? “I always wanted to be different from the crowd. And with my designing background, I can work towards taking construction designed technology to the people.”
Formerly working as an Assistant Professor at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology Pune , his perception was not only educate or trained students but took a personal responsibility for the development and application of engineering science and knowledge, notably in research, design, construction, manufacturing, superintending, managing and in the education of the engineer, he has gone way beyond that place them in a position to make contributions to the development of engineering science or its application. In due time, he is able to give authoritative technical advice and guided many MPSC, UPSC Aspirants. There are many areas in which the hope and energy of youth will usher in changes. Omkar Shendure says “I want to make society better towards education to make capable of closely and continuously following progress in civil engineering branch by consulting newly published works on a worldwide basis, assimilating such information and applying it for the people.” New engineers may find themselves being asked, or expected, to make major contributions at the earliest and highest levels of design. Instead of a career that clearly works from the bottom up, today’s engineers must know how to be involved in design and development from the top down. The civil services is a stable career option, but it also has another, deeper significance, which is to do something meaningful for the public. Despite the process being so stringent, people try hard and try many times to enter this coveted career. What draws people into this attempt? Is it the prestige, the idealism, the power, the status it definitely brings? Perhaps a bit of all of this! Needless to say, the dreams of the new recruits are tied up with those of millions of people whose voices are never heard by us. Getting into the civil services is a grueling task. The motivation to succeed must be very strong indeed; for it is not an easy task by any measure to scale the stages of getting selected for government service.