The results of this year’s SLC examinations published on Friday, however, just added to her misery. Sita was not in a condition to speak to anyone even 24 hours after learning that her late daughter scored 82.32 percent in the examinations. Indira had come to Kathmandu for a bridge course so that she could pursue her further education in Science stream. She died at Basantapur having reached there to visit with her cousins on the fateful day.

Her body was recovered after 12 days.

“Not only Indira’s family, the entire village is mourning for her,” local Bishwa Bhatta said. “She always stood first in class,” said Uttar Narayan Shrestha, principal at Bindrawati Higher Secondary School where Indira studied. “Despite coming from a family with a poor economic background, her education was excellent.” Indira’s father was working as a labourer in India to pay for hers and her sister Mandira’s education.

After her death, her brother has gone to Dubai for employment while her father has returned home.

Thirty-two out of 52 students from Bindrawati have passed the SLC this year. Indira also crossed the metaphorical Iron Gate scoring 82.32 percent, the highest percentage ever scored by a student from Bindrawati. Students from the school

first participated in the SLC in 1996 and the previous record of 80.5 percent was set last year. Indira, however, is not physically present to receive accolades despite being such an outstanding achiever.

Her teacher and classmates have said that she often kept to herself but was always interested in social projects. “We had arranged a scholarship for her to help her studies,” Shrestha said. “She had dreamed of becoming a staff nurse some day.”

The house of the Bagales has also been destroyed by the earthquake and the family members are compelled to live under a tent, according to Mandira. The family did receive relief materials but has not been able to build a temporary shack.

2 kill self, one dies of ‘heart attack’

DHADING: Sunil Bharati, 16, of Maidi-8 in the district committed suicide after he came to know that he failed the SLC exam. The student of Thulochaur Secondary School killed self by hanging from a tree in a forest near to his village, police said. Likewise, Laxmi Khadka, 17, of Urlabari in Morang also hanged from the ceiling of her house after she learnt that she failed the test. Likewise, a 17-year-old girl died of cardiac arrest in Khotang immediately after she came to know that she failed the SLC exam. Manisha Rai of Krishna Higher Secondary School collapsed on Friday as she knew that she failed in Optional Mathematics. “Manisha fell unconscious after she learnt about her result and died,” said Hira Ghimire, a local teacher. The girl used to be the topper in her class. (PR)