By Phuntsok Yangchen
DHARAMSHALA, May 28: A Tibetan student of Tibetan Children’s Village School Suja has secured 95.8 % in the Class XII All India Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations becoming the second student to win the Sikyong Scholarship started in 2012.
Tenzin Damdul from Tibetan Children’s Village Suja has secured 93 in English, 98 in History, 95 in Political Science, 98 in Geography, 95 in Economics and 64 in Tibetan.
Sikyong Scholarship was announced in 2012 by the Tibetan government in exile headed by PM Lobsang Sangay to encourage students to work harder and perform better in their studies. He will receive INR 1,00,000 as part of the Scholarship on top of his general scholarship.
Damdul scored
The Department of Education initially did not announce Damdul as the recipient of Sikyong Scholarship as the DoE considers marks of five highest scored subjects including two languages and three other subjects for other scholarships. However, no such requirement has been mentioned for Sikyong Scholarship in the booklet about it published by the department. Damdul would not have been eligible for Sikyong scholarship if the same requirement was to be met for Sikyong Scholarship. DoE today made an announcement to give Sikyong scholarship to Damdul and made new requirement for the Sikyong scholarship that a student taking six subjects must score minimum of 60 percent in Tibetan language.
443 Tibetan students scored above 75% as against 321 in 2014, which is an increase of 38%.
1,431 Tibetan students appeared for the board exams conducted by CBSE. 1306 students passed the examination, 25 students failed and 100 students have been made to reappear in the failed subject. The overall pass percentage of Tibetan schools is 91.26 which is a marked improvement from last year’s 86.7%, the DOE said.
16 students scored more than 90% this year compared to 10 students last year and 4 in 2010.
The DoE also announced the winners of the Gadhen Phodrang Student Merit Award for 2015. Three toppers from each stream will receive cash award of INR 20,000; INR15,000 and INR 10,000 respectively. All the awards will be given during the Tibetan Democracy Day Celebration on September 2 at Dharamshala.
Michiko Yamasaki from Tibetan Children’s Village, Selakui has topped the Science stream with 93%, Tenzin Senge from Central School for Tibetans, Mundgod has topped the Commerce Stream with 91.4% and Shawo Choeten from Tibetan Children’s Village, Suja has topped the Arts Stream with 93.2%.
