AGARTALA, Aug 23 (TIWN): Just a day after arriving at Agartala, DIpa sat for writing her examination papers on Tuesday.

A day before exams, Dipa Karmakar receives grand welcome in Tripura. Karmakar, who is pursuing her masters through distance mode from Tripura Central University, added she will begin practising after she is done with her exams. She missed her first paper that started on Sunday.

However, after receiving the welcome Dipa Said that “I am not well prepared for my semester exam. But I will study the whole tonight and will appear for my exam tomorrow morning. I will start my practice again after few days break for my exam,” she said.

Her father Dulal Karmakar said Dipa managed to find sometimes take a look at her notes to prepare for the exam even amid her hectic training schedule in the Brazilian city.

“However, her next paper will be on August 23. So, she will not get enough time to revise her lessons before appearing for the exam,” Dulal said.

Dipa asked her father to collect notes for the semester exam before going to Rio.

“Last month, we went to New Delhi to see her off before she left for Rio. During that time, I had given her all the notes which I collected from her friends. She told me that she would start preparing after her Rio final on August 14,” her weight-lifter father said.

Hundreds of people poured out on the streets of Tripura’s capital Agartala to give a rousing welcome to Dipa Karmakar, the first Indian gymnast to take part in an Olympics final, on Monday.

Dipa and her coach Bisweshwar Nandi were swarmed by fans, officials, followers, admirers and well-wishers as soon as they came out of Agartala airport.

As the ace gymnast and Nandi travelled to Swami Vivekananda Stadium - where a huge reception ceremony was held to honour them - in an open jeep, more than a hundred two-wheelers and others vehicles followed them.

Chief minister Manik Sarkar, sports and youth affairs minister Shahid Choudhury, education minister Tapan Chakraborty, forest minister Naresh Jamatia and others were present to felicitate them at the stadium.

Sarkar announced that Karmakar will be promoted as an assistant director and her coach as the deputy director in the sports department. She is currently working as a sports officer and Nandi as an assistant director in the department.