Topper returns Rs. 5 lakh cheque to alma mater, saying it can be used for educating poor children
Vachana Shree Patil, CET topper from Bidar, returned her gift cheque of Rs. 5 lakh given to her by her alma mater Shaheen College here on Wednesday. “Use it for the education of poor children,” she said.
At an event where various organisations came together to honour students from Bidar who had obtained CET ranks under 500, she thanked the college, but returned the cheque given by the college committee.
She said that her advocate father and doctor mother could afford her studies but wished that bright students from poor homes did not drop out for want of money.
Abdul Quadeer, secretary of the Shaheen College committee, said that the college would set up a fund with this as seed money to help poor students. Members of the Allama Iqbal Education Trust that runs the Shaheen School and College will take this up, he said.
Mr. Quadeer expressed the confidence that Bidar, which has a poor record in SSLC and PU exams, will definitely figure among the top 10 districts in the next five years. He pointed out that 15 of the 17 students who got ranks under 500 were Shaheen students.
Earlier, Ms. Patil was taken in a procession from her college to the Zilla Rang Mandir. Hundreds of girls and boys from different colleges participated. The Shaheen College committee distributed laptops to college toppers.
Gyani Darbara Singh from the Gurudwara Guru Nanak Jhira, Basava Prabhu Swami, B.K. Pratima Behenji from Brahma Kumari Ishwariya Vishwavidyalaya, Sister Christine Misquith from Carmel Vocational Institute, Bar Association president Anil Kumar Karanji, Shivaraj Patil and Somanathappa Ashture were present.
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