Hyderabad, June 17: It was the victory of have nots in Eamcet 2010. An auto driver’s son emerged topper in Eamcet, the results of which were declared on Wednesday. Md Gousejani, son of an auto driver from Vizag district, scored a mind-boggling 159 out of 160, the highest marks in Eamcet this year.
A score Gouse thinks would end his family’s struggle with poverty. He shared this score with B Pallavi of Vijayawada, daughter of a lorry owner, and A Janaradhan Reddy, son of a retired defence clerk. Among the other toppers in the engineering stream was Y Lakshmi Pathi of Tirupati, son of a farmer, who scored 157 out of 160.
Gouse, a resident of Muslimthati Chettapala, a small basti in Vizag, now dreams of becoming an electrical and communications engineer, work for an IT major and shift his parents to Hyderabad for good. His crackling performance in Eamcet, he said, was due to the sacrifices made by his parents: his father Md Ameer who sent him to the best of schools and colleges and mother, Shehnaz, who always managed to gather funds just in time to pay his fees even if it meant that the family remained hungry for days. The boy too did not let down his parents.
Gouse never lost sight of his goal since his childhood. “I completed my class X from Belmount School, Vizag, and scored 512 out of 600 and 965 out of 1000 marks in Intermediate from Narayana Junior College, Hyderabad,” Gouse said adding, “I knew only education could take my family out of the grim poverty.”
A meek-looking Gouse speaks unaffectedly about the hardships he and his family has been through but on Wednesday he was more keen on chalking out his future plans. “I am confident that I will not let poverty return to my house once I get a job. I will join Jawaharal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) or Andhra University and will continue my hard work,” Gouse said.
B Pallavi, a student from Ashok Nagar, Vijayawada district, too had to battle hard times to emerge topper. Pallavi lost her father a few years ago. Her mother, Koteswaramma, was left with no means to fund her daughter’s education. “My uncle V Raghavaiah helped at the right time hence I could continue with my studies with no worries,” said Pallavi. However, since she cleared AIEEE, she would now be joining National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal. She secured 967 out of 1000 marks in Intermediate with a hundred per cent score in Mathematics.
Meanwhile, the top marks in the medical stream were bagged by two city students – M Rahul and Ravinuthala Lalitha. Both students secured 156 out of 160 marks and shared the first place with N Kiranmayee of Vijayawada.
-Agencies