Lack of self-confidence is the only hindrance for many female graduates to take up Civil Services, said R. Malar Vizhi, Deputy Director, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy.
Addressing at the Founder’s Day at Lady Doak College here on Saturday, she said “only the mental block — it is impossible for me — is the hindrance for many of the students in achieving greater heights in career.
Every student had the potential to clear the Civil Services Examination provided they put in the needed effort.
“Many students feel low about themselves,” she said. A former student of this college, Ms. Malar Vizhi, cleared her Civil Services Examination and became an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer.
Stating that she had a humble educational qualification from Madurai, “but, at the academy I was with students who had pursued medicine, engineering, and those from Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management. When I can do it, I think each one of you can achieve it,” she said.
Earlier, a Tamil Pandit from Chennai and the first batch student of LDC (1948), Maragatham Chandrashekar, recalled her student days under the thatched-roofed classrooms.
She recalled her teachers and student friends of the college.
She told the students that they should make achievements that would become history.
The Principal and Secretary, A. Mercy Pushpalatha, administered the oath to office-bearers of student cabinet on the occasion.
Besides, the Dean of Student Services Helen Mary Jacqueline and a former student of the college Bhanu Murugan (college ambassador at international level through social network) addressed the gathering from Australia through video-conferencing.
