Joy of cracking IIT is short lived for underprivileged students

Joy of cracking IIT is short lived for underprivileged students:

28 of the 30 studentsfrom Bihar's Super 30 free coaching centre cracked the Indian Institute ofTechnology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).

Abhishek Kumar son of amechanic cleared the prestigious engineering exam. Abhishek aspires to becomean electrical engineer, a trait that runs in his genes.

Others students of Super30 like Bhanu Pratap son of Rampyare Pratap, a poor labourer from Uttar Pradeshalso cleared the exam.

Pranav Kumar fromSamastipur district in Bihar is the son of a landless farmer, Pankaj Kumar.Pranav studied in a government school. On cracking the exam, he said that AnandKumar "not only taught us but gave us the confidence to excel even in theface of odds".

When Ankit Kumar fromVaishali district in Bihar lost his father, a lineman in the telephonedepartment, in a road accident last year, his life seemed to come to astandstill.

"I came to know ofSuper 30 and cleared its screening test. Here, I seemed to have found my newfather," he said.

Shivangi Gupta, daughterof magazine vendor in Deha, 50 km from Kanpur, saw acute hardship from herchildhood as her father Viresh Chandra Gupta struggled to make both ends meet.

"I was provided allhelp and stayed in Anand Kumar's and finally cracked my dream exam,"Shivangi said.

Farhad and YasmeenShafi's son Hanjala has also made it through the IIT-JEE. Hanjala's parentshave a small shop in Patna. They somehow scraped together money to pay hisschool fees. "Today my son is set to go to IIT," said a proudYasmeen.

Santosh Kumar's fatherSanjeev Mallik from Madhubani is worried how he will pay his son's IIT fees,but he has faith in god to see them through. "I don't have the money tobuy him new clothes and books. But when god has brought him this far, he willtake care of his future also. I am a driver and don't even know what IITis," Mallik said.

A proud Afsar NathMishra, a Sanskrit teacher and priest from Banka, is proud that his daughterPreeti Kumari will be an engineer. "She will be our support when we areold," Mishra said.

Source: Indian Colleges