VTU student writes to CM for help

TUMKUR: A meritorious but poor girl student of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) who hails from Shimoga has written to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa seeking financial help to pursue her studies.

On Tuesday, the CM himself had offered help to poor students pursuing higher education while inaugurating the ‘hosa hejje’ scheme. And he had asked the students to write to him directly.

B C Vani, a third semester BE student of Channabasaveshwara Institute of Technology (CIT) at Gubbi town in the district, could not have got a better opportunity than this.

The CIT is run by Tumkur BJP MP GS Basaraju. She had secured 84.38 per cent marks in the second semester examinations.

Though her family had been facing financial crunch following the death of her father Cheluvaiah, she had joined the engineering course by obtaining an educational loan.

Now, as she is in need of a personal computer and has to meet other expenses, she has written to the CM seeking financial help.

She has addressed Yeddyurappa as ‘theertharoopa samanarada’ (you are like my father) seeking his help and posted it to his official residence on Thursday.

She hails from ‘besta’- fishermen community of Bhadravati taluk and since her father had passed away some years ago, her mother Vanajakshamma and grandfather have been toiling for the girl’s education.