Aiming high: Pooja wants to be judge

LUDHIANA: Pooja Joshi of Teja Singh Sutantar Memorial Senior Secondary School who topped the PSEB Class XII exams hails from Uttarakhand

Updated At : 07:01 AM Apr 24, 2018 IST

1st 98%: PSEB Class XII exams topper Pooja Joshi being congratulated by her parents in Ludhiana.

Naina Mishra

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, April 23

Pooja Joshi of Teja Singh Sutantar Memorial Senior Secondary School, who topped the PSEB Class XII exams, hails from Uttarakhand. Belonging to a humble family, she has two sisters and a brother.

Ecstatic over her success, she willingly agrees to share her success mantra when approached by this reporter.

“I worked really hard. I would stay back in school and study there till 4 pm. Once home, I would go back to books again till dinner time at 9 pm. During preparatory holidays, I toiled for eight hours a day. ” she recalls.

The topper says she wants to become a lawyer and then a judge.

Her father Dinesh Prasad, a priest at a local temple, has had a hard time raising his four children on a monthly salary of just Rs 10,000.

“I was planning to shift my children to a government school owing to our financial condition. My daughter wants to become a lawyer. I will do whatever it takes to fulfil her dream. Her studies will not suffer because of our financial problems. My daughter has proved that girls are no different than boys,” he says with pride.

Pooja’s mother Ram Pyari says the government should provide aid to the family “so that money does not come in the way of Pooja’s studies.”

Fatehgarh Sahib proud of Kashish

Fatehgarh Sahib, April 23

Kashish, a student of Baba Zorawar Singh Baba Fateh Singh Senior Secondary School, came first in the district and fifth in the state in the sports category. She secured 99.11 per cent marks. Principal Beant Singh congratulated her for bringing laurels to the school and the district. DEO (Secondary) Paramjit Kaur Sidhu said pass percentage this year was 75.5 against 62.82 last year. — OC

Abohar boy govt school topper

Abohar, April 23

Prince of Government Senior Secondary School, Khuyiansarwer village, 13 km from here, secured the highest marks among students of government schools in the state in the PSEB Class XII exams.

His overall rank on the merit list is 10th. Son of Jai Chand, a farmer, and Soma Rani, he secured 95.33 per cent marks in the non-medical stream. He devoted most of his time at home to studies.

“Prince aims to become an engineer and will appear in the common test to achieve the goal,” his overjoyed parents said. — OC