Pune: To join Indian Army, Anganwadi helper’s son quits TCS

A 25-year-old engineer working with a leading IT company — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has left his five-figure salary job to join the Indian Army, reported Times of India.

Bharat Darbarsingh Yadav, who is the son of an Anganwadi helper, managed to crack the Combined Defence Services (CDS) exam after his failed attempt to clear the National Defence Academy (NDA) entrance examination in 2010.

Interestingly, Yadav cleared the exams in spite of his pressing job as a systems engineer at the TCS office in Hinjewadi.

Yadav, whose father passed away when he was in Class V, had always dreamt of joining the army. He started preparing for the CDS exams in 2016 and his dream was fulfilled when he cleared the Service Selection Board (SSB) interview.

"When I took up the job as a system engineer in 2014, I knew this was not the place I wanted to be for the rest of my life," he said.

Yadav, a native of Sutala Budruk village in Khamgaon in Buldhana district, cleared the BE examination from Shri Santh Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering, Shegaon, and got a job at TCS, Hinjewadi in 2014.

He ranked 108th out of 153 candidates and will be joining the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai in the first week of April. He will be officially commissioned into the Indian Army as a Short Service Commissioned (SSC) officer after completing his training period.