Meet IAS officer Tina Dabi, Ria Dabi’s mother, who cleared UPSC, later took retirement due to…

New Delhi: IAS officer Tina Dabi, one of India’s most well-known civil servants, topped the UPSC Civil Services Exam-2015, achieving this feat in her first attempt. Her marriage to fellow IAS officer Pradeep Gawande garnered media attention in 2022. In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Bhajanlal Government has transferred 108 IAS officers. Currently, Tina Dabi serves as the District Collector of Barmer, while Gawande has been posted as the Collector of Jalore. Not only Tina, but her younger sister, Ria Dabi, is also an IAS officer from the 2020 batch, having secured an impressive All India Rank(AIR) of 15. But did you know that the mother of IAS sisters Tina and Ria Dabi, Himali Dabi, also cleared the UPSC exam and served as an Indian Engineering Services (IES) officer?
Meet IAS officer Tina Dabi, Ria Dabi’s mother, who cleared UPSC, and later took retirement due to…
As noted previously, IAS Tina Dabi’s mother, Himali Dabi, also successfully passed the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam. She went on to serve as an Indian Engineering Services (IES) officer. However, Himali Dabi took voluntary retirement to support her daughter, Tina Dabi, in her UPSC preparations and help her achieve her goal of becoming a successful IAS officer.
It is reported that Himali Dabi was also a topper at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal. In an interview once, she had also said, “Its not easy to prepare for this exam. It is very tough.”

Recently, IAS officer couple Tina Dabi and Pradeep Gawande, welcomed their first baby. Since the news of their baby boy’s arrival broke, congratulatory messages have been flooding in from all corners of social media. Himali Dabi’s younger daughter, IAS Ria Dabi, secured an All India Rank of 15 in the UPSC 2020 batch and later married IPS officer Manish Kumar. Ria Dabi got married to IPS officer Manish Kumar in 2023.