The Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary Education declared the results of Class XII on Tuesday afternoon. Once again, girls outsmarted boys in the Higher Secondary exams as 77.20 per cent of them cleared the exams as against 72.87 per cent of boys’ success. The average pass percentage remained 74.80.Bilaspur’s Akhileshwar Kashyap and Surajpur's Saurabh Dwivedi jointly topped the merit list, obtaining 96.60 marks each, Durg’s Subham Gupta remained second topper with 95.80 per cent, while Durg’s Tushar Dolwar and Korba's Durga Prajapati were jointly on third position on merit list with each of them scoring 95.60 per cent marks.
Again, Rajim girl Pragati Dubey and Raipur’s Hitesh Kumar jointly bagged 4th position on the merit list with each of them scoring 95.40 percent marks. Dhamtari’s Trayambak Baghel was 5th with 95.20 per cent, while Jaya Sahu of Korba bagged 6th position with 95 per cent marks. Durg’s Prerna Agrawal remained 7th with 94.80 per cent marks. A total of 22 students bagged the position from 1 to 10 on the merit list. Total 2,48,000 students had appeared in the exams this year; out of which 1,81,182 students were declared successful.
Out of the total successful students, 43,410 secured first division, 1,01,715 secured second division whereas 36,057 stud-ents passed in third division. Total 22 students found place between 1 to 10th position on the merit list, out of which five each were from Raipur and Durg, and two from Korba besides students from Gariyaband (Rajim), Dhamtari and Bilaspur districts. The Government has announced reward for meritorious students of the State board and under this scheme, every student finding place in the merit list will be given Rs1 lakh cash prize.