Auto driver's son tops EAMCET

Updated on: Thursday, June 17, 2010

Md Gousejani, son of an auto driver from Vizag district, scored a mind-boggling 159 out of 160, the highest mark in EAMCET this year.

Sharing this score with B Pallavi of Vijayawada, daughter of a lorry owner, and A Janaradhan Reddy, son of a retired defence clerk, Md Gouse thinks this would be the end his familyâ€™s struggle with poverty.

Among the other toppers in the engineering stream was Y Lakshmi Pathi of Tirupati, son of a farmer, who scored 157 out of 160.

Gouse, a resident of Muslimthati Chettapala, a small basti in Vizag, now dreams of becoming an electrical and communications engineer, work for an IT major and shift his parents to Hyderabad for good.

While speaking after this success, he said, it was all due to the sacrifices made by his parents: his father Md Ameer who sent him to the best of schools and colleges and mother, Shehnaz, who always managed to gather funds just in time to pay his fees even if it meant that the family remained hungry for days.

Gouse never lost sight of his goal since his childhood told, â€œI completed my class X from Belmount School, Vizag, and scored 512 out of 600 and 965 out of 1000 marks in Intermediate from Narayana Junior College, Hyderabad,â€

â€œI knew only education could take my family out of the grim povertyâ€, he told.

Auto driver's son tops EAMCET

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