KOTTAYAM: Two of the top rankers in the state engineering entrance have chosen IITs for further studies. They also want to write the civil services examinations. Vendant Prakash Shenoy, who got the second rank in the state entrance test, had won 763rd rank in the NEET. He hopes to study in IIT Mumbai in the mechanical engineering stream. "I would like to join the Indian Foreign Service after the engineering course," Shenoy told DC. He studied at the Kuriakose Elias school, Mannanam, for Plus-Two and Girideepam school till tenth standard.
He is the only child of B. Prakash Kumar, a professor in the department of bio- sciences at the MG University, and Captain Sheena Ravi, formerly with the Indian army. The third rank winner, Abhilash Kar, is a native of Den Kanal in Orissa. He had chosen the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya’s Vadavathoor centre since the centre offered special training to the engineering aspirants and concession to the meritorious. He too hopes to join the IIT and has secured the 110th rank in the JEE entrance examinations.
He expects to get a seat for computer science at the IIT Delhi and would like to do research in robotics. "I would also like to write the civil services examinations though my main aim is to do research in robotics," he told DC. The other state rank-holders are Anand George of Keezhathadiyoor (fourth), Prashant Shishodia, (sixth) who completed plus-two from the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Vadavathoor, and Satyabratha Naik (10th).
