Two students from Haridwar district secured second and third positions in the state as the class 10 result of CBSE board was declared on Tuesday afternoon.
Ayush Sharma of Acharyakulam, a boarding school run by the yoga guru Swami Ramdev, and Uddalak Chattopadhyay of Delhi Public School based in Haridwar have topped the list of the state by securing second and third positions of the exam respectively.
From a middle class family, Ayush longs to become an Indian Administrative Service officer (IAS) to serve the country. While his father is us an electrician working in a private company his mother is a Sanskrit teacher in a school. Ayush said that yoga and meditation helped him a lot keep balance during the stressful times of his study period. “Though I stayed away from home I never felt homesick as I studied under the benign guidance of my teachers, including the yoga guru. I never felt taking tuition as the teachers took full care of me, preparing me for the exam, bit by bit,” he said.
Chattopadhyay is son of a BHEl engineer settled in Haridwar. “I aspire to be an engineer. I long to build marvellous monuments which would glorify my country,” he said.