Thursday, May 27, 2010

[ZESTCaste] IIT-JEE: Dalit students come out with flying colours

http://www.thehindu.com/2010/05/27/stories/2010052762430700.htm

Andhra Pradesh

IIT-JEE: Dalit students come out with flying colours

Staff Reporter

Naresh from Government Junior College at New Nagole secures 210th rank
in SC category


Five other students from the Government Junior College secure ranks in
the IIT-JEE entrance

The Government Junior College offers two-year long-term integrated
coaching for Dalit students

HYDERABAD: If getting admission into the Indian Institute of
Technology is a dream for many, it is a dream forbidden for many more
due to social and economic exclusion.

A. Naresh, a student from the Government Junior College at New Nagole
designated by the Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential
Educational Institutions Society for IIT long term coaching, had all
the debilitating circumstances that would have consigned him to those
millions.

He did not succumb, and he is in news.

Owes it to parents

Naresh, who secured the rank 210 in the SC category of IIT-JEE, is the
first such candidate from his village Kasimpalli of Warangal district.

He owes it as much to his parents-- Sulochana, a municipal sweeper and
Ilaiah, an agricultural labourer-- as to his own dogged effort to
scale the impossible heights.

"My parents are keen on our education. They did not want us to end up
in menial jobs like them," said Naresh who stayed and studied in the
social welfare hostels all through.

He was one among the six students from the college who smashed through
the air of despondency pervading their Dalit identity to secure ranks
in the entrance.

The others

The other students are B. Ranjit Kumar, M. Maruthi, M. Gangadhar, V.
Murahari, and K. Jagan. "This college was set up in 1998 on special
request from IIT trainer Chukka Ramaiah who felt the need for offering
IIT coaching to Dalit students. It is the only one of its kind in the
whole country. Last year too, we could send four students to the IIT,"
said the Government Junior College Principal E. Lakshmaiah.

Rigorous training

The college offers two years' long term integrated residential
coaching for Dalit students chosen through an entrance exam.

Rigorous training from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. and model tests prepare them
to compete with the students from the elite corporate colleges across
the country, the Principal said.

"Sixteen students got selected for the NIT last year. 98 per cent of
our students leave the institute with engineering college admission
letters," says Seetharama Sastry, a proud mathematics lecturer from
the college.


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