Latur-based Shubham Bhosale from Killar village bagged the 149th rank in the prestigious civil services examinations, the results for which were announced this week. Bhosale (25), is the son of a zilla parishad primary school teacher.

Bhosale said hearing stories of the devastation the 1993 Latur earthquake had wrought made him realise the ground reality of rural Maharashtra, inspiring him to seek a profession that would help marginalised communities and work towards development in rural areas of the country.