Kakinada Class Ranker Gets Into Corporate School after Collector's Intervention

KAKINADA: Kakinada District collector Kritika Shukla has taken the initiative of admitting a girl, who secured the third place in the Class X examinations, to a corporate college at Kakinada.

The girl need not pay tuition or other fees to the college. The fees for her would be mobilized from the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fund of the Reliance Industries Ltd.

Nangana Akshaya of Rajapudi village in Jagampeta mandal scored 585 marks out of 600 in the Class X examination and she bagged first place in constituency level and third place in district level.

She received the Prathibha Award under the Jagananna Animuthyalu scheme. She aimed at doing Engineering in an IIT. But the corporate college has exerted pressure on her to pay Rs 3.20 lakh for two years.

The girl’s father Satyanarayana urged the college and collector Kritika Shukla to help in her girl’s education. The collector arranged her education under the Jagananna Animuthyalu in a corporate school free of cost, including free hostel facility.

The collector blessed the girl to achieve a seat in IIT. She also promised the girl to provide help in future too.

The girl’s father Satyanarayana works in a rice mill and her mother is an Anganwadi teacher.

Meanwhile, Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema District collector Himanshu Shukla performed Aksharabhyasam to a five-year-old baby suffering from a rare disease.

Koppadi Honey was suffering from a rare disease and required a sum of '1 crore for her treatment. The parents of the girl, Rambabu and Nagalakshmi, approached Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy with a plea for help. The CM sanctioned the amount for her treatment in October.

On Friday, Himanshu Shukla helped her with 'Askharabhyasam' at his chamber and admitted her to a corporate school in Kamanagaruvu Samanasa village, where she can study free of cost.