Vijayawada, April 26: T Madhavi, the first ranker in PG Medical admission test got a seat of her choice, MD (radiology) at Osmania University on the first day of the counselling here.
Her social, economical and educat ional back grounds have failed to deter her spirit in achieving first rank in the Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination conducted by Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences for the academic year 2010-11.
Hailing from Sriramulapalli, a small village in Kamalapur mandal of Karimnagar district, Madhavi’s father Chandramouli works as a weaver and mother Sathyamma rolls beedies for a living.
Her consistent academic record stands testimony to her success story more than anything else. After seeing her interest in studies during her primary school days, Madhavi’s uncle motivated her to write Andhra Pradesh Residential School Entrance Examination in which Madhavi secured one of the top ranks and joined AP Residential School at Vangara.
Speaking to Express, Madhavi said she used to top the class in studies during her four year schooling in the residential school.
Madhavi scored 558 marks in Class X public examinations prompting a corporate college to offer her a seat in Intermediate providing free education and boarding facilities.
Realising the expectations of the college and her parents, Madhavi scored 94 per cent marks in her Intermediate Board examinations and secured 515th rank in EAMCET medical entrance examination, which secured her a MBBS seat in Kakatiya Medical College, Warangal.
Sharing her success story with Express, the girl said her father always wanted to see her as a doctor from her childhood, which has been a great motivating factor for her success. She said she always used to remember her parents and how they were sweating it out every day to fund the education of their three children.
Madhav i h a s a l s o achieved distinction by scoring 72 per cent marks in MBBS. She expressed her desire to serve the poor after completion of her medical education. However, her aim is to pursue DM (Doctor of Medicine) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences after completing her PG.
The story of A Datta Reddy, who secured seventh rank in the entrance is no different. Hailing from a small village in Kamareddy of Nizamabad district, Reddy said his parents motivated him to make it big in studies. Reddy’s father is a farmer, who cultivates semi arid crops in his eight acres land which hardly meets their livelihood.
He opted for MD General Medicine in Osmania University.
He wants to set up a hospital near his home town to serve the rural poor and downtrodden
–Agencies