Muslim girl creates history by topping

PMT 2009

Wednesday, June 24, 2009, Khomdram Bedita, The Imphal Free Press

Imphal: For the first time in the history of the Muslim community in the state, a Muslim girl Salma Begum has bagged the first position in the PMT examination 2009 securing 364 marks out of 400.

Salma Begum is the eldest daughter of Md Abdur Rehman and Bibi Hajira of Lilong Uku Maning. She is one among five siblings and this was her second attempt at the PMT examination.

While speaking exclusively to the IFP, the topper said she passed the Class X examination conducted by the Board of Secondary Education Manipur from Crescent English High School, Lilong where she studied from Nursery, scoring 71.6 percent. She joined the Brajalal Institute of Science thereafter and secured 77.8 percent in the Class XII examination conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur.

She further mentioned that she had been fully confident she would do well in the recently held PMT examination, results of which was declared yesterday. She gave her credit to the teachers of MECI who helped her achieve success.

Besides this, her father, a pharmacist, and mother, a housewife, had faced many difficult circumstances in fulfilling her ambition to join the medical profession.

Salma Begum also gave a message to her fellow students of the Muslim community to follow the path of struggle in order to achieve the aspirations of serving the poor and needy in the state.

Both the parents of Salma Begum expressed gratitude to the Almighty for their daughter’s success and prayed that she is able to serve the people of the state.

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