Eleven TNAU alumni clear competitive exams of Union, State governments
The Hindu
Former TNAU students excel in government exams, including UPSC and TNPSC, sharing experiences with current undergraduates.
Eleven former students of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, have cleared competitive examinations of the Central and State governments this year.
Subashkarthik from Tirunelveli District has cleared the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam for posting in Indian Police Service, and Oviya from Dindigul district has passed the Indian Revenue Service exam.
Out of the rest who had cleared the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) exams — Ganthiriya and Nithya are posted in the cadre of Deputy Collector, Vignesh in Deputy Superintendent of Police cadre, Ajithkumar as Deputy Registrar of Cooperative Societies, and Vaishali and Indra Priyadarshini as Assistant commissioners in Commercial Taxes.
At a felicitation function held at the TNAU on Tuesday, the achievers shared their experiences with a gathering of 600 undergraduate students.
Felicitating the students, V. Geethalakshmi, Vice-Chancellor, said the learning resources that the university was equipped with has been of immense utility for the students to prepare and succeed in competitive examinations.
Anitha Krishnan, a resident of Northwood Villas, one of the upscale gated communities in Yelahanka, woke up in the wee hours of Sunday to see the water level in her posh villa rise as it was raining heavily outside. Residents of 22 villas in this community were unable to move out for more than 12 hours, the time the civic body took to drain out the flooded water from this community.
As many as 275 students of Vikram Simhapuri University will receive their degrees from Andhra Pradesh Governor S. Abdul Nazeer during the 8th and 9th convocation of the university on its Kakutur campus on May 22 (Wednesday). Twenty students will be given away gold medals. Nineteen students will be awarded PhD degrees while 236 will get their post-graduation certificates.