Port Blair, June 19: The Lt Governor, Lt Gen (Retd) Bhopinder Singh, PVSM, AVSM today felicitated the first five toppers of Class XII in the Science, Commerce, Arts and Vocational streams for the academic year 2012-2013. At a function organized under the aegis of Directorate of Education at Raj Niwas here today, the Lt. Governor gave away medals and certificates of merit to the Class XII toppers in the presence of the First Lady of the Islands, Smt Bhawanee Singh. He also presented Late Ajay Mathew Gold Medal to Kumar S. Ahmed Meeran, 1st topper of AISSCE (2012-13), who scored 96.60% marks. The Lt Governor on the occasion also released a book on imaginative and awareness creative poems by Kumar Prasanjit Das, a class Xth student of St. Mary’s School, Port Blair.  

Speaking on the occasion, the Lt Governor congratulated all the meritorious students for their hard work and excellent result in academics and lauded the efforts of the teachers for the outstanding results achieved by the students. The excellent performance by these students will motivate and inspire other students to do well in their academic subjects, he stated. He further stated that many initiatives are being taken by the Education department to provide right ambience to the students by providing proper school infrastructure facilities in all the three Districts of the Islands. The Lt Governor advised the student to set goals by deciding in advance about their career options and then pursue hard to achieve their aims.

Earlier, welcoming the chief guest and others, the Chief Secretary (i/c) and Principal Secretary (Education), Smt Rina Ray stated that the students of the islands have done well by scoring high percentage matching the toppers in mainland. She further stated that the Education department will organize separate coaching classes for senior students in order to support them for preparing UPSC examinations. The function concluded with the vote of thanks proposed by the Director of Education, Dr. R. N. Prasad.