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Pranjal Patil, a native of Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra in India was born in 1988. She is the first visually impaired Indian woman selected as an IAS officer. Pranjal secured a rank of 773 in her first UPSC attempt in 2016 and was selected in the IRAS (Indian Railway Accounts Service). She was not deterred and in her second attempt, she attained a rank of 124 and got selected as an IAS officer. She joined as an Assistant Collector in the Ernakulam district of Kerala in May 2018 after the training at LBSNAA.

Early Life and Education
Patil was born with a weak eyesight and lost the vision completely as the age of 6. Despite several hardships of visual impairment, she was undeterred and fulfilled her edducational aspirations. Patil completed her schooling in a Marathi-medium Kamala Mehta Dadar School for the blind and pursued BA in Political Science at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai with the help of the Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged. Patil also pursued her Masters in International Relations from Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and was also offered an integrated MPhil and Ph.D. program.