00:00 Tina Dhabi is back making the headlines as she welcomed her first child with her husband
00:06 and fellow IAS officer Pradeep Gawande on Friday.
00:10 The couple met during the COVID-19 pandemic when they were tasked with ensuring supplies.
00:15 They got married on April 20 last year.
00:17 Tina Dhabi, an officer of the 2016 Rajasthan Cadre, was last posted as district magistrate
00:23 in Jaisalmer.
00:24 On July 14, she announced in an Instagram post that she was taking a break from work.
00:30 She was earlier posted in Jaipur as a Joint Secretary of Finance Tax to the Rajasthan
00:34 government.
00:35 Tina Dhabi has managed to stay in the news for the past six years.
00:40 She was heavily discussed online during the COVID-19 lockdown and has a strong social
00:45 media presence as well.
00:46 Be it Tina Dhabi's UPSC rank or her love story and marriage, she is frequently under
00:51 the limelight.
00:52 In 2015, Tina Dhabi became the first person from the Dalit community to top the prestigious
00:58 civil services examination.
01:06 She was born on November 9, 1993 in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal.
01:10 Her father Jaswant Dhabi was posted as general manager in BSNL and her mother Himani Dhabi
01:16 has been an officer in IAS i.e. Indian Engineering Service.
01:20 Her younger sister Riya Dhabi also became an IAS officer by attaining rank 15.
01:30 After moving cities from Bhopal, Tina Dhabi studied at Jesus and Mary Convent School in
01:35 New Delhi.
01:36 Several reports claim that she completed her class 12th from CBSE and she topped there
01:40 as well.
01:41 The reports also suggest that she scored full marks in Political Science and History in
01:46 class 12th CBSE board exams.
01:48 Tina Dhabi has graduated in Political Science from Lady Sriram College for Women, University
01:53 of Delhi.
01:59 She started preparing for UPSC in the first year of her graduation.
02:03 Dhabi was successful in her very first attempt and emerged as a UPSC topper.
02:09 Tina Dhabi became the UPSC topper of that batch by securing the first rank in the 2015
02:14 UPSC exam.
02:15 After training in the year 2016, she became an IAS officer of the Rajasthan Cadre.
02:20 She tied the knot for the second time with Dr. Pradeep Gawande in April this year.
02:24 As per reports, the wedding was a low-key affair and was attended by relatives of the
02:28 couple and some guests.
02:30 Pradeep Gawande, a 2013 batch IAS officer, hails from Maharashtra's Latur.
02:35 He completed his MBBS at Ghati Hospital in Aurangabad.
02:38 He cleared UPSC in 2013 and is now an IAS officer of the Rajasthan Cadre.
02:44 Tina Dhabi had first married Athar Amir, an IAS officer of a batch, but the two later
02:49 got divorced by mutual consent.
02:51 Tina then married Pradeep Gawande, who is apparently 12 years older than her.
02:55 Earlier in May, she made headlines after she received backlash in Rajasthan for passing
03:00 an order which led to the demolition of 28 residences of Pakistani Hindu migrants living
03:05 in the city.
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