Apart from those who have been attending regular school, prison inmates, rehabilitated child workers and textile mill workers who wrote Plus Two examinations this year in the district have also come out successful.
In Coimbatore seven students who were rescued from brick kilns, catering service or cattle rearing have completed Plus Two.
NCLP
Under the National Child Labour Project, most of these students studied in the special schools run under the project for a year after they were rescued from work places. They later joined the regular schools.
Manimegalai, who was earlier working in a brick kiln, and studied Plus Two at a school near Pollachi has scored 995. Most of the students want to pursue higher studies. The project officials are trying to help them join college.
All the six inmates of the Coimbatore Central Prison who wrote the board examination have cleared the same. All of them want to pursue higher education. The inmates were taken to the Puzhal Prison complex for the examination, as they do not have a centre here. These inmates were students of the history group.
The topper among them is S. Syed Muhammed Buhari (39) who was convicted in the serial bomb blast case in the city in 1998. He scored 1,059 out of 1,200.
Five other convicts who cleared the examination are life convicts.
Scores
The age of those convicts and examination scores are as follows: C. Ramesh (30) 914 marks, R. Govindarajan (50) 908 marks, N. Sudararajan (34) 847 marks, R. Rajendran (40) 715 marks and inmate P. Prakash Solan (42) 575 marks. The prison has tie-up with Universities to help the inmates pursue higher studies.
All the six inmates of the Coimbatore Central Prison who wrote the board examination have cleared the examination
