Girl who tried to end life becomes a topper; Scores highest marks in SSLC supplementary exams

Tumakuru: Even after many difficult setbacks, life gives a chance to grow and flourish. An SSLC student from Tumakuru is a shining example of this fact.

Greeshma, a Karnataka SSLC (Class 10) girl student had attempted to commit suicide at being denied the opportunity to appear in annual examinations. She has managed to score maximum marks in the supplementary exams last month.

Greeshma, a student of Alvas school of Moodbidri, scored 599 marks out of a total of 625 marks in the examinations. This was the highest score among 53,155 students who took the exams.

IANS reported that Greeshma, who had scored 95 percent in Class 9, was not issued a hall ticket for the SSLC exams as she could not pay the fee of the school. The parents came to know about this when they had tried to enroll her for the exams. Appeals to the Deputy Director for Public Instruction (DDPI) and the Education Minister were of no avail.

A heartbroken Greeshma had attempted to commit suicide on July 17 at her residence. However, timely treatment had saved her life. The incident had made headlines as the Karnataka government was all set to hold SSLC examinations amid the challenge of the Covid pandemic in the state.

After coming to know about the incident, then Education Minister Suresh Kumar had rushed to her residence and spoken to her. He had asked Greeshma to be brave and assured of giving an opportunity for her to write the SSLC exams during supplementary examinations.

Suresh Kumar had further asked her to focus on her studies without worrying too much about what happened.

After the results, an elated Suresh Kumar congratulated her.

“Greeshma has become a model for others. She did not get diverted from the commitment. Greeshma has achieved what she aspired for,” he was quoted as saying by IANS.

In a statement to IANS Greeshma said that she is very happy with the results and thanked everyone who helped her to take exams. “I committed a mistake earlier. I had prepared for well the exams,” she added.

Greeshma hails from Koratagere town in Tumakuru district. She is the daughter of the Narasimhamurthy and Padmavathi, IANS reported.

(With inputs from IANS)