Ashwin’s parents and brother celebrate his success in Ranchi on Sunday. Picture by Hardeep Singh

Ranchi/Jamshedpur, May 30: Ranchi boy Ashwin Kumar, who stood 99 in IIT-JEE, ranked 45 to emerge the state topper in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), the results of which were declared today.

Ashwin’s father, Suresh Prasad Bhagat, an assistant engineer in the state irrigation department, confirmed his son’s scores and added that Ashwin had secured rank 18 in the engineering entrance examination organised by Manipal University and rank 126 in a similar examination conducted by Vellore Institute of Technology.

Mother Amita, who teaches chemistry in Suraj Singh Memorial College, said her son received Rs 5,000 every month as scholarship under the Kishore Vaigyanik Protshahan Yojana of the Union government. “My son is the only student from the state who qualified for the scholarship last year,” she added.

Meanwhile, success stories poured in from different coaching institutes of the capital as well. Newton Tutorials Private Limited released a list of 64 students who had done well. The list includes the names of Gadekar Swapnil (all-India rank 155), Abhisekh Nikhil Toppo (827), Kanhaiya Lal Chourasia (1277), Nadeem Anjum (2376) and Gajendra Kumar (3058), besides others.

The city centre of FIIT-JEE also issued a list of top 10 students. They were Abhisekh Sharma (all-India rank 129), Utkarsh Sinha (537), B. Shreyansh (1349), Megha Agrawal (1498), Anamika Shreevastava (1719), Mehul Priyadarshi (2055), Ayush Tiwari (2717), Prateek Chandra Jha (3147) and S. Prateek (3526), besides state topper Ashwin (45).

Centre head of the institute Sharat Prakash said more students were to confirm their results.

State co-ordinator of AIEEE and Jawahar Vidya Mandir principal D.R. Singh said of approximately 11 lakh students appearing for AIEEE this year, 28,000 were from the state capital.

In Jamshedpur, boys appeared to have fared much better than girls. About 10,000 students had appeared for AIEEE this year from the steel city.

Pravesh Agarwal, who bagged ranked 27 in the IIT entrance examination, managed an all-India rank of 67 in AIEEE. “The pattern in both papers are different. The IIT-JEE paper has less questions with more time, but it was the reverse in this case. I am satisfied with what I have scored,” said Pravesh.

Chandan Kumar, a student of DAV Public School, Adityapur, managed to grab an all-India rank of 214 and 13 in the OBC list. M. Dastagiri Reddy, a student of Jamshedpur Public School, stood 122nd. Both students were city toppers in the CBSE Class XII examinations.

“The result has been satisfactory and almost all our students will get into decent engineering colleges and institutes of the country. However, our institute focuses mainly on IIT,” said Pramod Dubey, director of Prerna Classes, one of the premier coaching centres of the city.

AIEEE helps students to get into the NITs, BITs, Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and a number of private and deemed universities in the country.