Tribal students qualify for India’s premier technological institution (IIT) – Chhattisgarh

Watching his father toiling as a labourer, Jaiprakash Singh decided that he must aspire for something much higher. Jaiprakash, who belongs to a tribal community in Chhattisgarh’s Balrampur district, is on his way to achieving his dream; with the 750th rank in the reserved category of IIT-JEE examinations, he is all set to enter the premier institution.
“I wanted to do something in life. When I joined school in Raipur I was told of the Super 30, and the coaching that they offer to students like me. I was told that if I put in my best, I can actually make it to the IIT,” he told The Hindu on phone from Chhattisgarh.
Jaiprakash is among several students from Chhattisgarh’s Naxal-affected areas who have benefited from the State government’s ‘Prayas’ scheme that offers students accommodation in the residential hostel at Raipur. These students, chosen on the basis of merit, are offered special coaching and prepared for competitive exams. […]
Like Jaiprakash, Suryaprakash Netam, from naxal-affected Farasgaon in Bastar, has also made it to the exclusive institution. Ranked 405, he too was part of the ‘Prayas’ initiative.
“I am looking forward to my new life at IIT… I am also looking at returning to my village as a big officer who can do something for my people,” said Jaiprakash.

Source: “Tribal student makes it to IIT” by Smriti Kak Ramachandran, The Hindu, NEW DELHI, May 20, 2012
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