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Srinivasa Ramanujan Academy awards presented

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59 students were honoured in recognition of academic distinction

— Shaju John

AWARD WINNERS: Former Vice-Chancellor of Anna University M. Ananthakrishnan (third from left) with the students who won Ramanujan Awards 2006 at a function in Chennai on Friday.

CHENNAI : The Srinivasa Ramanujan Academy of Maths Talent presented Ramanujan Awards 2006 to 59 students on Friday in recognition of their academic distinction. The award carries a book and a certificate.

The students belonged to 15 CBSE schools in the city and had scored 450 out of 500 and centum in mathematics in the standard X public examination. Two teachers bagged the award for their paper `What ails school mathematics?'

While the first prize of a gold medal went to Vijayalakshmi Raman of Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB), Nungambakkam, the second prize of a cash award of Rs.500 went to Usha Venkatesh of PSBB, K.K. Nagar.

Presiding over the function and honouring meritorious teachers, the Editor of The Hindu , N. Ravi, complimented the teachers and said their contribution was immense in the vital area of teaching mathematics. In an era of rapid expansion of education, spotting and nurturing talent were being neglected. He paid tributes to the academy for its efforts to encourage and motivate students and teachers in mathematics. Talent was critical to fostering innovation and home grown talent should be nurtured.

Referring to the speech of the academy secretary, Mr. Jagadeesan, on commercialisation of education, Mr.Ravi said that the trend was "very unfortunate."

The former Vice-Chancellor of Anna University, M. Ananthakrishnan, who presented the awards to students, said there was enormous amount of talent in children. But there was no organised system in the government and in universities to identify talents. Complimenting the academy for its activities, Dr. Anandakrishnan advised students not to treat the talent certificates lightly as they had a greater weightage than university degrees.

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