BAGALKOT: An agricultural labourer's son, who is working as a specialist at a private hospital in Hyderabad, has topped in two subjects in the National Eligibility Entrance Test (Super Speciality) held on January 10 and whose results were declared on Tuesday.
Dr Chidanand Kumbar, who lost his mother at an early age and whose father is a landless agricultural labourer in Mudhol taluk's Ranna Belagali village in the district, stood first in all-India rank in gastroenterology and liver hepatology. At least 20,000 doctors from across the country wrote the examination.