Six from Telangana top Eamcet in Andhra Pradesh

VIJAYAWADA: With the Centre planning to issue an ordinance postponing Neet, Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu released the medical stream results of Eamcet in Vijayawada on Sunday.

M. Hemalatha of Nellore secured the first rank. She said that she wants to become a doctor to serve society. The top ten students were M. Hemalatha (Nellore, 156 marks), Y.   Satwik Reddy (Hyderabad, 155), A. Yagnapriya (Hyderabad, 153), Ch.  Neha (Vijayawada, 152), I. Khan (Hyderabad, 152), S. Sahiti Savitri  (Secunderabad, 152), P. Sailaja (Visakhapat-nam, 150), B. Greeshma   Meenan (Warangal, 150), D. Siva Kumar (Nalgonda, 150) and K. Sai Pradeep Reddy (Prakasam, 150).

The CM said that the Centre’s ordinance on Neet had allowed Andhra Pradesh to select students for  medical and agriculture courses through the existing  Eamcet  system, for this year. AP Eamcet-2016 Chairman and JNTUK vice-chancellor V.S.S. Kumar said that 92,468 students applied for the exams, 78,218 attended and 14,250 were absent. A total of 95.13 per cent of students took the exam.

He said that the students taking the exam for entrance to medical and agriculture courses was  about 1.03 lakh; of whom 98,752 attended. Out of these, a total of 4,498 students failed in the intermediate exams, and they allocated the ranks to 81,986 students.

Chandrababu Naidu tells tale of hardship

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said on Saturday that employees should sacrifice their interests in the interests of the state and shift base to Vijayawada. He said that he when he started his work from Vijayawada he slept in a bus and still lived away from family members. There is no time to meet his grandson and other family members, Mr Naidu said.