As Dr Srinivas M took cost because the director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Saturday, it was a second of delight for his alma mater New Kannada Authorities Excessive College in Karnataka’s Yadgir district the place the scholars held his photographs celebrating the event.
Dr Srinivas pursued his faculty schooling in Kannada medium. His pre-university schooling was additionally accomplished in Yadgir, thought of to be an underdeveloped area. He has proven that Kannada medium college students from authorities faculties can attain the highest ranges in lecturers.
Chatting with Indian Specific, Dr Srinivas’s elder brother Dr Nagaraj M mentioned that he was at all times a scholar who gained ranks. “My father labored as a tehsildar and retired. He needed us to review within the Kannada language and likewise despatched us to authorities faculty as he at all times believed that it could assist us to develop as a person. He was additionally explicit that my sons needs to be a minimum of a scholar who studied in personal faculties in CBSE or different syllabi,” mentioned Dr Nagaraj, who’s the director of ESIC Dental Faculty in Kalaburgi.
Born on 11 August 1966 to Saroja and Ashappa, Dr Srinivas bought into the Ballari medical school (known as the Vijayanagar Institute of Medical Sciences now) the place he accomplished his medical schooling and pursued his MS in Davangere and Grasp of Chirurgiae (MCh) at AIIMS. A gold medallist in MBBS and MS, Dr Srinivas at all times dreamt of attaining one thing large and was very constant in working laborious, his brother mentioned. Dr Nagaraj mentioned that finding out in a authorities faculty or in Kannada medium was by no means a problem for the siblings however helped them develop additional.
The Division of Personnel and Coaching of the Union authorities acknowledged within the appointment order that Dr Srinivas will function director for 5 years or until attaining the age of 65.