CM Yogi to award meritorious UP Board students

Agra: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will

award

top 10 rank holders in UP Board high school and intermediate exam of 2018-19 in a ceremony in Lucknow on September 1. The district inspector of schools (DIOS) has already sent out a list of 21 meritorious students of Agra district. These students will be taken to Lucknow in a special bus which will depart from the DIOS office on Saturday.

Ravindra Singh, DIOS Agra, said, “Top ten scorers of UP Board high school and intermediate exam will be awarded in Lucknow by the chief minister. Each of the meritorious student will get a Rs 21,000 cheque as appreciation by the state government. We have made arrangements to take 21 high performers from Agra to Lucknow by a bus. Out of these, 11 are those who passed intermediate and 10 of high school. Two meritorious students in intermediate exam had the same score.”

“The list of 21 meritorious students include six girls and four boys in intermediate. In the high school list, seven are boys and three three girls,” he said.

The district intermediate merit list includes Smriti Singh scoring the highest – 88 percent, Somya Singh, Radhika Sharma, Vibhanshu Lodhi, Nasir Khar, Astha Singhal, Rekha, Sumit Kushwah, Sachin and Radha Mahor. Both Sachin and Radha scored 83.60% marks each.

The district high school merit list includes Jayashav Kumar, scoring highest 92.67%, Samir Kumar, Tanya Gupta, Tanishah Gupta, Prabhat Jurel, Sonam Kushwah, Anuj Kumar Bharti, Bhupendra Kumar, Naresh and Vishal Singh scoring 88.83% marks.

Class XII district topper Smriti Singh, said, “I am very happy and excited to be attending the award ceremony in Lucknow. To felicitate the meritorious students who has studied hard throughout the year is an excellent step taken by the state government.”

Class X district topper Jayashva Kumar, said, “Getting awarded from the state government will be a huge motivation for me to study with full dedication and work for welfare of the society in future.”