Merit awards to Inter rankers presented

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, JULY 22.

Is there a formula for passing the examinations with flying colours? Yes. Discipline, perseverance and hard work. This sure shot recipe comes from none other than the IIT guru, Dr. C. Ramaiah, himself.

There is a new found eagerness among the students these days to excel and do one better. That's what makes them slog for long hours and rise as early as 4 a.m and it augured well, said Dr.Ramaiah while participating in the merit scholar award function organised by the Tirumala Music Centre (TMC) here on Sunday.

Dr. Ramaiah recalled how some 40 years ago getting average marks was considered sterling performance and a seat in Engineering was ensured. Today a student needed to score 98 per cent marks in Intermediate second year to qualify for admission to BITS, PIlani. The best student of today was far superior than the best student of previous generation. On the contrary the average student of present day was far worse than his counterpart of yesteryear.

Dr. Ramaiah expressed happiness at the strides being made by the State in the field of education. It was a matter of pride that students of Andhra Pradesh were doing excellently and occupied top positions everywhere.

Dr. I.V. Subba Rao, secretary, Education, said it was important that average students, teachers and schools performed well. The Government was taking many steps to improve the general level of performance.

The film artiste, Mr. Akkineni Nageswara Rao, gave away merit awards to 11 top rankers of Intermediate. The first prize went to M. Keerthi Kumar who scored 974 marks out of 1000 in Intermediate second year. The second and third prizes were won by J.T. Priyanka and P.V. Praneeth who obtained 972 marks each. All the three were given gold medals. The other students who scored marks ranging from 967 to 970 were also honoured.

Mr. Nageswara Rao also drew lots for the "Honeymoon holiday offer" for newly-married couples. Earlier, Mr. N. Amarnath, executive director, and Mr. N. Chandrashekar, managing director, TMC, spoke.

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