7 girls from district in top 10

In the results declared by the PSEB for class X, Ludhiana girl students bagged top seven ranks in the state.

PSEB class 10 topper Riya Garg (center) with the2nd place holder Mahima Nagpal(left) and 3rd topper Jannatpreet kaur(right) at R.S.Model Senior Sec. School in Ludhiana on Monday,June 2 2014. (Express Photo by Gurmeet Singh)

From a scrap dealer’s daughter to mommy’s girl, it were the girls coming from different family backgrounds that made their parents and schools proud on Monday.
In the results declared by the PSEB for class X, Ludhiana girl students bagged top seven ranks in the state.

Riya Garg, a student of R S Model School who topped Punjab with 97.69%, was brought up by her mother since her father passed away when she was an infant. “My mother worked hard to raise me and my brother. She is a teacher in the same school but she never let us take any undue advantage of that,” she said.

The second rank holder with 97.23% is Mahima Nagpal from the same school. She is the daughter of a scrap dealer, who suffers from a rare disability due to a problem in the neck muscles. “He studied till 10th only but made us (brothers) and Mahima study hard. He is our inspiration. Unlike other parents who tell children to study, we told Mahima to take some rest,” said Jagdish Nagpal, his paternal uncle. The family lives in Abdullahpur Basti.

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Jannatpreet Kaur from the same school got 96.92% and secured third rank in the state while Vaishnavi with 96.77% marks from Nankana Sahib Model High School stood fourth in the state.

Japsimran Kaur from R S Model School got 96.15% marks. She is the daughter of an aluminium fabricator. “She is a softball player and now aims to clear IPS,” said her father Sarabjit Singh. She stood eighth in the state.

With 95.85% marks, Bhavika Kakkar and Arshdeep Kaur stood 10th in the state. Daughter of a machine parts mechanic, Kaur said, “I am aiming to clear IPS.”

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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