B. Sadhana, the topper in the Class X board examination among students of the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) schools, aims to become a medical doctor and will prepare for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) through the free coaching classes offered by the civic body.
“My sister, B. Sandhiya, is an engineer. I want to be a doctor. I aspire to give free medical services to people of my community in the future,” she said, and added that she would first have to crack NEET with flying colours before deciding on a stream of medicine to purseu.
Her mother, B. Vijayalakshmi, 44, a native of Rameshwaram, who works as a domestic help in Chennai, said: “We cannot pay for courses in private colleges. We hope she scores high in the Class XII examination and NEET so she can get a seat in a government medical college under the 7.5% horizontal reservation for government school students.”
