Vellammal School Honours their  Asian Heros

The  Velammal    Matriculation    Higher   Secondary   School   today  (01^st August, 2008 ) honoured seven of their students, who returned with a rich haul of medals in various age groups in the Asian Junior Chess championship at Teheran last month.  Those honoured with awards were    Gold   medallists   P Uthra  (12th  Standard )   and  M. Mahalakshmi (fifth standard), silver medallist   International   Master   (IM)  B Adhiban  (11th standard),         IM M Shyamsundar (11th standard) and Woman IM Mohana Priya (tenth standard), both finished fourth in the tournament.   The school management     represented     by    Velammal    Group      Chairman  M V  Muthuramalingam,  School  Correspondent   MVM Velmohan  and   Principal   P  Prabakaran    also      honoured  IM P Sethuraman (11th standard) for finishing fifth and RA.Pradeep Kumar (12th standard) for representing India in the prestigious event.

The young players were given cash award of Rs 50,000 each,  while M.Mahalakshmi was given an additional educational scholarship    of Rs 60,000.  All India Chess Federation Secretary D V Sundar, Tamil Nadu State Chess Assocaition President P R Venkatrama Raja and Vice President J C D Prabhakaran lauded the efforts of the young students in bringing laurels to Tamil Nadu and India.

Mr Raja spoke about Vellamal's quest for excellence and hoped that some of the players from this group of seven would become among the top ten in the next five years.

Mr Sundar hailed Mahalakshmi as the teenage prodigy for winning the under-10 title in Teheran and said more feats could be expected from her in the future



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