CM gifts pen to adi dravidar school student who cleared CLAT
Trichy: Chief minister
M K Stalin
on Monday met a student from the adi dravidar school who had cleared the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) and gifted her a pen.
While on the way from Thanjavur to Trichy, the chief minister accompanied by ministers K N Nehru and Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi met D Rahini and presented her with a shawl.
She studied at Adi Dravidar Welfare Higher Secondary School, Milaguparai, in Trichy district.
Rahini has secured a seat at the Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur after getting 3,724 rank in the SC category and 185 in the Persons with Disabilities (PwD) category in the CLAT. She had scored 300 out of 600 in the Class XII exam. She was the first student from the 17 adi dravidar schools in the district to clear CLAT.
The state govt has announced that Rahini's education expenses are to be fully covered under the Naan Mudhalvan scheme.
Ragini was raised by her father Dayalan, who works in an eatery, and grandmother Nallamma. They were happy that Rahini could clear the exam and met the chief minister.
Taking to X, chief minister Stalin, Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, K N Nehru congratulated the girl and wished her success. "I gifted a pen with which I sign our Dravidian model plans," Stalin wrote.
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