Twelve tribal students of Eklavya Model Residential School of Chhattisgarh have cleared the All India Medical Entrance Examination (NEET-2021) to secure admission in medical colleges.
Of them, 11 have got admission in MBBS course and one has been selected for BDS (Dental) course. Tribal and Scheduled Caste Development Minister Dr. Premsai Singh Tekam greeted the students on their selection.
Five students are from Eklavya Adarsh Residential School, Katekalyan (Dantewada), two each are from Kabirdham, Raigarh and Surajpur districts and one student is from Bastar district, an official communication said on Sunday.
Dantewada’s Piyusha Wake and Ramshilla Beck have been selected for the Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial College Raipur, Indu Kodopi and Padma Madhe (Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences, Bilaspur) and Salvam Pale for Government Dental College Raipur.
Kabirdham’s Raghunandan Dhurve (CIMS-Bilaspur) and Digvijay Singh Masram will take admission in the Government Medical College Kanker.
Raigarh’s Tribhuvan and Parasmani Rathia for Government Medical College Ambikapur, Surajpur’s Sheshkumar and Satyanarayan Singh and Bastar’s Sukhram Mandavi have been selected for the Medical College Rajnandgaon. Chhattisgarh has 71 Eklavya Model Residential Schools.