http://www.thehindu.com/2010/05/27/stories/2010052762430700.htmAndhra 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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http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_dalit-boy-cracks-iit-entrance-test_1388086
Dalit boy cracks IIT entrance test
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 17:53 IST
Patna: The socio-economic deprivation did not come in the way of
realising his cherished dream as a bright youth from the Mahadalit
communities Anand Kishore, a native of Nawada district, did himself
and his family proud by cracking the prestigious joint entrance test
of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
The son of a father engaged in tapping palm juice for livelihood, the
18 year-old boy lived up to the expectation of his guru Anand Kumar,
the mathematics wizard and founder of the prestigious coaching
institute, 'Super 30' to secure 1190th position in the joint entrance
test for IIT this year.
Basking in the glory of his newly found achievement, Kishore, who
studied upto Class XII from a non-descript school in Nawada district,
passed on the credit of his success to the Super 30 and its co-founder
Kumar.
"I studies in a dedicated and disciplined manner on the advice of
Kumar Sir," he said.
My family members too stood like a rock by my side and prayed for my
success, Kishore, who belongs to the Pasi caste of the larger social
conglomerate called Mahadalit, said.
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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/71971/cobblers-son-makes-iit.html
Cobbler's son makes it to IIT
Sanjay Pandey Lucknow, May 27, DHNS
Living in a ten by ten room sans electricity in a congested and filthy
area and dreaming of becoming an engineer may sound a bit too big but
Abhishek Kumar Bharti, a dalit, has proved that it is not impossible.
Son of a cobbler, Abhishek, a resident of Ganga Ganj in Uttar
Pradesh's industrial town of Kanpur, about 90 kilometres from here,
has achieved 154th rank in the IIT-JEE in the Scheduled Caste (SC)
category, the results of which were declared on Wednesday.
While Abhishek's father Rajendra Prasad mends shoes, his mother
Sangeeta Devi does tailoring business to make a living and look after
their four children of whom Abhishek is the eldest.
Abhishek also used to lend a helping hand to the family by doing some
petty jobs occasionally. "I always dreamt of becoming an engineer and
now it has been fulfilled," said an elated Abhishek, who used to study
in the light of a lantern outside the small room.
"I used to study for seven-eight hours every day regularly...if one
studies regularly with concentration, one can achieve what one wants,"
said the dalit boy.
"I have no words to express my happiness...it's all because of his
(Abhishek) hard work and determination...he has really worked very
hard," said Prasad
Sangeeta Devi, Abhishek's mother, is proud of her son. "I pray to the
Almighty that every parent has a son like Abhishek... he has made all
of us very proud."
Sangeeta Devi, who comes from a poor family in the neighbouring Kanpur
Dehat district, has studied up to 12th standard. "In our village,
people were not in favour of sending girls to the schools but I
completed Intermediate (12th)," she added.
She feels that her own education prompted her to make sure her
children get better future.
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