The daughter of a welder in Ramanathapuram, who travelled 15 km to reach her school by public transport, has scored first mark in the Class X State board examinations, the results of which were released on Friday.
D. Kaviya Janani, 15, a student belonging to Dalit community and hailing from Peraiyur, a village located in Ramanthapuram district near Kamuthi, with 499 marks stands first in the State.
Her father R. Dharmaraj works as a welder on contract basis in Coimbatore and his wife D. Vasanthi is employed at a grocery shop in Kamuthi. Both have struggled all these years to educate their two daughters — Kaviya Janani and Akshaya.
