Meet IAS officer who cracked UPSC exam after MBBS, quit IAS job after few months to build...

Written By DNA Web Team | Updated: Sep 16, 2023, 02:39 PM IST

Roman Saini from Rajasthan was a doctor and he decided to quit his practice as a doctor to crack UPSC exam and become IAS officer.

UPSC exam is considered by many as the toughest exam in India and every year lakhs of UPSC aspirants from across India appear in UPSC exam with an aim to clear the exam and become IAS officer. There are many who succeed in clearing the UPSC exam in second or third attempt but there are some talented individuals who managed to crack UPSC exam in their first attempt and Roman Saini is one among those rare aspirants who cracked UPSC exam in first attempt.

Roman Saini was a doctor and he decided to quit his practice as a doctor to crack UPSC exam and become IAS officer. Roman Saini, however, resigned as IAS officer after few months and turned entrepreneur and is now part of a company named Unacademy which is valued at over Rs 15,000 crore. Let’s know more about Roman Saini and his remarkable success story.

Roman Saini hails from Rajasthan and his father is an engineer, while his mother is a homemaker. Roman Saini was a bright student and he succeeded in clearing AIIMS examination at the age of 16. He worked as a doctor for just six months and resigned to pursue his goal of cracking the UPSC exam. Roman Saini managed to clear UPSC exam when he was 22 years old. He was posted as a collector in Madhya Pradesh but he resigned as an IAS officer and joined his friend Gaurav Munjal, who is the founder of Unacademy.

Munjal founded Unacademy with an aim to provide quality coaching to UPSC candidates at a reasonable price. In 2010, Unacademy was launched by Gaurav Munjal as a small YouTube channel and Munjal, Saini, and Hemesh Singh then launched the business at a bigger scale in 2015.