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Tuesday May 31 2005 11:04 IST
PURI: For cyber cafe owner Bikram Ranjan Sahoo and his ilk, May and June are the months to cheer about.

Sip a drink, browse the net and know your examination result. The trend that has caught up students here like their brethren around the globe has only made the cyber cafe owners laugh all the way to the bank.

A place where the number of internet users is not very encouraging, publication of results on the internet has come as a boon for the innumerable cafe owners.

Lowering usage cost, installing placards and sticking posters outside their shops, they are going all out to rake in the moolah.

��On an average day, we get a maximum of two customers and there have been times when we hardly have one visitor,� informs Bikram, owner of �Lagoon dot.com, a city-based cyber cafe. But the �result season� has kept him busy the whole day negotiating a crowd of roll number holders.

It includes students from outside the city too and many cafes earned in thousands on a single day -- the day the matriculation result was published.

The trend has, however, spelt disaster for those selling result booklets published by the State Government since years.

��I had to rush to the CHSE office on Monday for the Plus-II result booklet but all my efforts have gone in vain. I am yet to recover my transport expense as students are heading towards cyber cafes,� rued Asit Pradhan, who has been in the trade since last four years."