QUEPEM:
Flavia Andrea Da Costa
, a girl from the ‘backward’ Sanguem taluka who scored 98.2% marks at CBSE Class XII exams, has chosen to enter the lesser known field of industrial relations and economics and corporate law.
As a backup option, she is looking at IAS.
Flavia has secured admission in Bengaluru’s St Xavier College based on her marks of Classes X and XI much before the Class XII results were announced.
“It is completely my decision to pursue corporate law, I want to help those people who are uneducated and are forced to work hard, but hardly get any money. I want to work for the employees and labour welfare,” Flavia, who resides in Sanguem town and is a student of Kings School, Margao, said.
Flavia, a student of humanities stream, secured 99 marks in economics, 98 in business studies, 99 in mass media, 99 in psychology and 96 in English.
She studied her pre-primary in Perpetual Succor Convent, Curchorem and later completed her Classes I to X in Manovikas, an ICSE school, in Margao. She used to travel 60 km to and fro Margao to pursue her studies from Class I to Class XII.
Asked how she performed well despite the pandemic, she said, “There was stress and fear among the people, but I overcame the fear and managed to focus on studies, despite the pandemic. I began my studies early at 5am and ended at 9pm.”
“My main aim is to make my parents proud. I want to see happiness on their faces. My parents always told me to do whatever that keeps me happy,” she said, adding that she was being encouraged to take science by some people.
Flavia’s mother Enid D’Costa is a geography teacher at Miracles High School at Sanguem, and her father is an automobile engineer employed abroad, but is presently at home due to the pandemic.
“If we have resources, then why can't we break the barriers and admit our children to good schools and give them quality education? People are spending lakhs of rupees for constructing houses. But people should spend money on children’s education because better education is also an investment,” Enid said.
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