A total of 42 students of class X of DPS Bhilai qualified in the first phase of the nationally acclaimed scholarship examination (NTSE) conducted at the State level by the SCERT, Raipur.
In all, there are 86 seats at the State level and this year DPS Bhilai has successfully bid for 42 – the largest number in the State, according to a DPS Press release.
Out of these eight students got ranks within top 10 and they are (rank in bracket): Ananya Parikh (1), Nimay Gupta (3), Kalash Verma (4), Pratyusha Satpathy (5), Hrishik Mukherjee (6), Ritwik Jain (8), Aadetya Jaiswal (9) and Anugyan Das (10).
The other qualifiers are (ranks in bracket)—Arnesh Kumar Issar (11), Satwik Banchhor (12), Jyotirmay Chauhan (13), Esha Kolte (18), Manas Verma (21), Mayank Patel (22), Panshul Raj Sharma (27), Shubharangshu Chakraborty (28), Divya Dwivedi (29), Sakshi Bhandarkar (30), C Nikhil (33), Dipanshu Verma (34), Shivam Mishra (35), Sumon layek (36), Aryan Shukla (41), Aviral Jain (42), K Nishant (43), Kalash Agrawal (44), Shayeek Ahmed (45), Vaibhav Prasad (46), Kartik Bhardwaj (51), Purnanshu Borkar (52), Tanish Gupta (53), Parth S S J B Rana (59), Piyush Sahu (60), Pranjal Subhash (61), Saurabh Mallik(62), Pragya Singh (63), Aman Madame (66), D R Siddhartha (68), Abhinandan Bala (69), Advait D Hyanki (72), Devleena Naik (81) and Rahul Singh (86).
All the selected students will appear in the final phase of the written examination, which will be held at national level in May, 2016 at Raipur. Those who qualify in the final phase will receive the coveted scholarship from class XI to the PhD level.
The school management has also congratulated the students, staff members and parents for the magnificent achievement.