Girl students bag lion’s share of LU medals, win 137 of total 174

LUCKNOW: Nine girl students of Lucknow University have clinched 66 medals of total 174 medals to be awarded to meritorious students of various undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
Harshita Dubey of MSc in Mathematics has bagged maximum 14 medals. Overall, 79% of the total medals have been grabbed by girls, while boys got 21%.
LU awards a total of 196 medals in various streams and subjects.While 15 medals instituted by university were distributed in the convocation on November 21, seven are not being awarded this year because no candidate was found suitable.
The tentative list of the remaining 174 was uploaded on LU website on Thursday evening. Of these, 137 have gone to girls and 37 have been claimed by boys.
“We have invited objections from students against the names in the tentative list by December 7. Thereafter, a scrutiny will be done and final tally will be released. A separate function will be held to award these medals,” said LU spokesperson Durgesh Srivastava.
Highest number of 14 medals have been bagged by postgraduate mathematics student Harshita Dubey, who had already been awarded two Chancellor’s silver medals — one for being the best women student of the university and the other for being the best student among all PG students — in the convocation.
Now, she will get 12 more medals, including prestigious Dr AN Singh gold medal given to student scoring highest marks in Mathematics along with others for scoring highest marks in all semesters, for standing first in MSc, for being the overall successful women student in the university and scoring highest marks in the paper of fluid mechanics among others.
Shambhavi Pandey (BA) and Sarita Yadav (MA) have bagged 10 medals each, while law student Pragati Srivastava got eight and Jaya Kumari (MSc) has claimed seven medals. Anam Khan (MA Social Work) has grabbed six medals and Priyanshi Raj (MA Economic) five.
“A single student is able to win more than one medal or even 10-12 medals in a course because there are several sponsored medals which are awarded to students for scoring high in a subject,” said an LU official.