Raipur

CGBSE toppers want to serve nation as civil servants

Staff Reporter

She burnt the mid night oil to become one of the toppers in the just declared Class 12th result of Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education (CGBSE) and bagged 10th position. She was one among the top scorers in the State and first in the district of Rajnandgaon.

Now, Samridhi Devagan has set her eyes of becoming a civil servant. She wants to become an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) office to serve the nation, despite other options.“I want to become an IAS officer” she says with determination. According to her, she spends over seven hours every day to her studies and would dedicate more time to achieve her main goal in life.She feels as a bureaucrat she could contribute a lot to the people.So is the case with other toppers — Sweta Kumari Bhagat and Pooja Rao, both were students of Saraswati Shishu Mandir Higher Secondary School Manantgarh who scored second and fifth positions in the merit list.

According to them, they want to dedicate their life for nation building and they wamt to serve the nation by joining the civil service as IAS officers. This could be the best way to translate their dreams into reality.Sweta scored 472 of the 500 marks to make it to the second top scorer in the merit list. She also scored 99 out of 100 in maths.Similarly, Pooja too scored 469 of the 500 aggregate to become the fifth topper in the merit list. Their friends are of the opinion they would achieve their goal and were ready to work hard for it.

Another topper, Davat lodhi from Bhilai Nagar says he wants to join IIT for more remunerative career.He scored ninth position in the merit list. He credited his teachers for the success.Another Bhilai Nagar resident Narad Singh who scored 10th position in the merit list wants to become an engineer. Besides his teachers, he credited his parents for his success.Shilpi Bais, another top scorer from Pithara Nagar says she wants become a Mechanical Engineer. She scored 93.80 marks and is fifth in the merit list. According to her she was determined to become something and put in her best in the studies.

She said she would work for the nation as a mechanical engineer.They are among the 2,86,891 students who appeared in the examination 1,95,115 cleared it with a total passing percentage of 72.86.According to result declared on Friday, 1,44,754 boys sat in the examination and only 70. 22 per cent of them could clear the test compared to 75.93 per cent of girls of a total of 1,24,137.When it came to scoring marks, only 13.43 per cent bagged first position followed by 38.80 per cent second position and 20.23 per cent third position. Similarly, 1040 others were declared just passed and 31,694 got supplementary.

The Board also withheld the results of 434 students for different reasons and cancelled the results of 678.