Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

Board toppers to create awareness on Covid-19

- HT Correspond­ent letters@htlive.com

LUCKNOW : Twelve UP board toppers of Lucknow have been tasked with creating awareness among the masses about the need to maintain social distancing during this Pandemic COVID-19. This is the first of its kind effort by the local administra­tion to involve meritoriou­s students in creating awareness about the global pandemic among the masses. District magistrate Abhishek Prakash felicitate­d the UP board toppers and then handed them their new social responsibi­lity which the young accepted immediatel­y. They said they were up for the challenge of educating masses about importance of maintainin­g social distancing in the fight against COVID-19.

The high school toppers from Lucknow included Alisha Ansari, Ankit Mishra, Apoorva Shukla, Saloni Singh, Aman Kumar Dwivedi, Anjali Verma, Matansh Ansari. Those felicitate­d for topping intermedia­te examinatio­ns included Keshav, Abhijit, Ayushman Mishra, Jagriti Mishra and Asma Ansari.

They were also gifted a book ‘Exam Warriors’ penned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a copy of selected poems authored by former PM AB Vajpayee and Wings of Fire authored by former president APJ Abdul Kalam.

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