Gold in Gulbarga

For securing the first rank in college and the second rank in the Gulbarga University at the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree examination conducted in April 2005, Serafraz Neville Irani is eligible for the Goolbai Muluk Gold Medal, notes a press release. The Gulbarga University covers the Gulbarga district plus five other North Karnataka districts. Scoring 1,787 out of a total 2,500 Irani earned a first class with distinction for which she was felicitated by her college, Doddappa Appa Institute for MBA as also by Pankajkumar Pande, chief executive officer, Zilla Parishad, Gulbarga District, and by the Rotary International District 3160 governor Dr Indira Reddy.

Serafraz (centre) being felicitated by Indira Reddy while father Neville looks on

In her second year of MBA studies she was selected as a member of the International Youth Exchange Team to visit Malaysia by the Rotary International District 3160. As an MBA student she had anchored several management events and youth festivals and was the anchor at a recently held Rotary conference in Hyderabad when the Andhra Pradesh chief minister Dr Y. S. R. Rajshekhar Reddy was the chief guest, according to a press release.

Currently pursuing her MPhil from Bharatiya Vidya Peth, Poona, Irani has consistently performed well at board examinations. In 2000 she had stood first in Gulbarga District at the Higher Secondary Certificate examination and three years later she was placed fifth in the Gulbarga University in the BCom examination, notes a family source.