Date:19/05/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/05/19/stories/2006051924390100.htm

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Top ranks for Guntur, Hyderabad students

Staff Reporter

Corporate colleges secure maximum ranks in EAMCET-2006

HYDERABAD: Corporate colleges have again garnered maximum top ranks in the EAMCET-2006 with Narayana and Sri Chaitanya Colleges sharing a majority of them. The results were announced on Thursday.

Pratik Agarwal of Narayana Junior College at Mehdipatnam bagged the State first rank in engineering while G. Varun Teja of Guntur-Vikas took the top spot in the medicine stream.

Students of Sri Chaitanya colleges got all the other nine ranks in the medicine stream.

Narayana students got first, second, fifth, seventh and 9th ranks while the third, fourth and seventh ranks went to Sri Chaitanya students. First ranker Pratik, son of an accountant, said he preferred to go to either BITS or any NIT as aeronautical engineering was not available in the State engineering colleges except one college.

A majority of toppers in the medicine stream hail from middle class and small town background. Third ranker Dileep Kumar is a son of a senior assistant in Pathapatnam mandal while the fifth ranker Pavitra is the daughter of a librarian.

Another fifth ranker G. Krishnamourya hails from Chittoor while N. Tejalohith Reddy, the 6th ranker's father, is a police constable in Kadapa town. M. Venkatprasad Reddy, the 9th ranker comes from Rayachoti in Kadapa. Sri Chaitanya Director B.S. Rao said they had proved that students with little educational background can be turned winners with proper guidance.

The highest rank for a girl in engineering went to T. Sree Ramya of Narayana College in Vittalwadi. Daughter of an advocate, she got the 11th rank. Only two girls-- Saranya (3rd) and Pavitra (5th)-- figured in top in the medicine stream.

D.V. Rao, Director of Narayana group, said they got 37 ranks in the top 100 in engineering and 101 in the top 1000 in medicine stream. B.S. Rao of Sri Chaitanya said 81 of their students were in top 100 ranks in medicine.

On the whole, 1500 students from their institutions would get admission in various medical colleges this year.