Abineet Parichha from Balangir district has become the all-India topper in the Indian School Certificate Examination (ICSE) Class-X examination by securing 99.2 per cent.
The results of the examination were declared on Friday.
A student of the littlie Flower School, Parichha has scored 100 marks, each in Mathematics, Computers and Social Science, 98 in Science and English and 96 in Odia.
“I had expectation of securing above 95 per cent marks but never expected to be all-India topper,” said Abineet, son of businessman Sukant Parichha and Purnamasi.
Another student from the State, Karan Agrawal of the St Paul’s School in Rourkela, emerged as the third topper in the examination securing 98.8 per cent marks.
A total of 6,848 students of 88 schools of the State had appeared at the examination.