Where there is a will there is a way! rightly proves by Ruling Biju Janata Dal MLA Purna Chandra Swain who cleared the Class 10 matriculation examination held on offline mode by the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha.
He is among the 15, 136 students who had appeared the examination conducted on physical mode but due to his health issues he was allotted an isolated room. The ruling party legislator had tried several times in the past to sit in the matriculation examination but failed to do so due to his commitments to politics and social activities. The exam which concluded on August 5 was held for students not satisfied with the marks allotted as per internal assessment as the annual exam was cancelled due to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The politician hailing from Ganjam district secured the highest mark in painting (85) followed by home science (83). He secured 67 marks in Odia, 61 in social science and 44 in English
