patna girls once again outsmarted boys by bagging as many as 25 out of the 38 gold medals awarded to the toppers of postgraduate examinations at patna university annual convocation on saturday altogether 1330 scholars passed the postgraduate examinations in 201820 sessions of whom 732 are girls a total of 312 scholars were awarded phd degrees on the occasioneducation minister vijay kumar choudhary lauded the girls performance the initiatives of the nitish kumar government have started bearing fruits and very soon the state will become a model of womens empowerment in the world he said he asked the universities to regularize their academic calendars and clear the backlog of pending examinationsthe gold medallists in the faculty of humanities included chandni prakash hindi dhruvi sinha english vishnu prabhakar sanskrit pawan kumar lal das maithili md moeen arabic md zahid urdu rajeev kumar philosophy sanjana kumari music and annu jha mjmchimanshu shekhar and akash kumar history shailja wats political science shikha singh home science rohit kumar ancient indian history beauty kumari sociology shubham economics minal psychology akansha priyadarshi geography manisha kumari pmir abhishek kumar rural studies pancy social work afsha farida womens studies mona kumari library and information science were the gold medallists in the social sciences facultyin science sunita kumari physics nibha sharma chemistry sofiya yasmeen zoology rupak raj botany sunny kumar jha geology sana shakeel mathematics shrutikirti singh statistics komal kumari biochemistry neha sakshi biotechnology neha naz environmental science and rashmi anand mca were awarded gold medals other toppers included madhuri singh commerce nishat perween mba raj prashar law and waeza afshan education