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HP Board Class 12 Result: Meet Shining Stars of Portmore School Including Two Visually Impaired Students
Shimla: The Girls Senior Secondary School, Portmore, Shimla, is one of those rare government schools which offer more than the government has been able to deliver in most of its schools. The credit doesn’t go the Government or to the Education Minister but to the school management. Recently, the Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HP BOSE) declared results for the Class 12 examination held for the session 2019-2020.
The school did fairly well with a pass percentage of 94.6. A total of 397 students appeared in the examination and 374 of them passed it. The pass percentage for the Arts stream was 99.48, 97% for Commerce, 87.35% for Medical, and 82.35% for Non-Medical stream.
Then, there are some others who passed it with flying colours. Shardha emerged as the overall topper of the school by obtaining 96%, followed by Avantika with 94.2% in the second place, and Akshita Pirta with 94%.
But the real stars of the school are two visually abled students – Shalini who scored 84.8% and Rajni Negi who scored 82.6%. While Shalini wants to become a HAS officer, Rajani wants to become a music teacher.
“It’s a very proud moment for the parents, teachers and the School fraternity. We congratulate our two specially-abled academic achievers- Shalini and Rajni -who have aced the examination this year. We are proud and appreciate their never-ending dedication. Wish them the best for the future,”
said Principal Narender Sood.
Shalini hails from Chailla (चैला) panchayat of Chamba district and Rajni belongs to Kumarsain of Shimla. Both have undertaken and completed computer courses from CRC, Sundernagar.
A Shimla-based non-profit organization, Umang Foundation, has announced that it would offer a scholarship to both specially-abled students to help them get a college education from RKMV College, Shimla.
The Chairman of the Foundation, Ajai Shrivastva, said that NGO had already provided Shalini with a laptop for her studies.
Other than this, in Commerce stream, Anchal topped with 93%, followed by Samridhi in second place with 92%, and Preeti 89% in the third place.
In Medical stream, Diksha topped with 93%, followed by Nitika in second place with 92%, and Tezul with 89% in the third place.
In Non-Medical stream, Muskan Sharma bagged the first rank with 88% while second and third positions were secured by Muskan Prashar with 88.2% and Anurika Kamal with 86% respectively.
Solan: Naincy Sagar, an alumna of Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni has bagged a fellowship for pursuing PhD from France. Nancy has reached France and will be pursuing PhD in Forest Genetics from the University of Orléans under INRAE fellowship. INRAE is France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Naincy has completed her BSc Forestry from College of Horticulture and Forestry (COH&F), Neri in 2018 and MSc Forest Biology and Tree Improvement and Genetic Resources from UAS, Dharwad, under ICAR’s National Talent Scheme. Before leaving for France last week, Naincy was working as a Junior Research Fellow in a research project at COH&F, Neri.
She had applied for a PhD with a scholarship in Forest Genetics which was advertised by INRAE. Naincy was successful in the interview and was awarded a fellowship for three years for pursuing PhD at the University of Orléans. During the course of the PhD, she will receive a total scholarship of around Rs 70 lakh along with medical reimbursement. Naincy will be working on forest tree larch species in the Project titled ‘Vigour at what cost? ‘Trade-off’ of hybrid vigour in Larch-Phenological, morphological and physiological determinants of hybrid superiority in Larix X eurolepis’ with a team of 20 scientists of Joint Integrated Biology Research Unit having expertise in genetics, genomics and physiology for the enhancement of tree and forest diversity
Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Vice-Chancellor of the university spoke to Naincy via web conferencing and congratulated her. Dr. Kaushal, who has also done his doctorate from France, shared some tips and suggestions. He asked Naincy to explore this opportunity to learn about new cultures along with doing research that could help to enhance and conserve forest wealth in the future.
Naincy expressed gratitude towards her father Satya Prakash Sagar (Retd. SDO BSNL) and mother Monika Sagar, who is working as SDO in BSNL for their continuous support for higher studies. She also thanked Vice-Chancellor Dr. Parvinder Kaushal, Dean Dr. Kamal Sharma and Dr. Dushyant Sharma, Project Investigator and all the university staff for their support and guidance. The university administration, Dean of COH&F Neri congratulated Naincy and wished her success.
Shimla-Dates for admissions to undergraduate courses for the session 2021-22 in colleges affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University has been extended, which has come as a relief to not only those students who were seeking fresh enrollments in the first year but also to the students of the second and third year.
The varsity informed that the decision was taken after considering requests received from various students regarding the same.
Now, willing students can apply for enrollment in both government and private colleges till 5 PM, October 25, 2021.
This extension of date would benefit students who recently passed supplementary exams or those students of the second and third-year who had missed admission due to delay in declaration of their previous results.
Solan– Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni, has extended the last date for applying to various Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral programmes in Horticulture, Forestry, Biotechnology, Agribusiness and Business Management. Applicants can submit their complete online application on the university’s admission portal till 18th October.
The normal seats of BSc (Hons) Horticulture, BSc (Hons) Forestry and B Tech Biotechnology will be filled on the basis of scorecard of ICAR-AIEEA (UG) 2021.
Admissions to MSc, MBA (Agribusiness) and PhD (for normal and self-financing seats) will also be conducted on the scorecard of ICAR AIEEA (PG) and AICE-JRF/SRF respectively. Students who have appeared in the ICAR-AIEEA 2021 for UG and PG, or AICE-JRF/SRF examination and are interested in seeking admission, such students must fill the university online application form before 18th October. Undergraduate aspirants who have not appeared in the ICAR test can however apply for the self-financing seats for B Sc and B Tech Biotechnology programmes run by the university by filling the online application on the university website.
The university has also advised the registered candidates to submit complete online application forms along with online payment acknowledgement slip before the due date. The schedule for online counselling will be announced by the University on the website after the declaration of the ICAR examination result. Application forms other than online mode will not be accepted.
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