Two students from the most marginalised Baiga tribe in Madhya Pradesh have cracked the Indian Institutes of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) Main exams and have become eligible to sit for the JEE (Advanced) 2015 scheduled to be held on May 24, 2015.
If the students Geeta Tekam and Santosh Kumar qualify the IIT-JEE (Advanced) exams, they will be eligible for admission into one of the most prestigious engineering colleges of India. Both the students live in acute poverty and their families mortgaged everything to fund their education.
Eighteen-year-old Geeta Tekam is the first girl of Baiga tribe to see the dream to study in IIT. She has already cracked JEE-Main. Her labourer parents, living in acute poverty at Sunehra village in Mandla, preferred to choose her for academics than two sons.
Two students from the marginalised Baiga tribe in Madhya Pradesh crack IIT-JEE Mains exam - IBNLive
If the students Geeta Tekam and Santosh Kumar qualify the IIT-JEE (Advanced) exams, they will be eligible for admission into one of the most prestigious engineering colleges of India. Both the students live in acute poverty and their families mortgaged everything to fund their education.
Eighteen-year-old Geeta Tekam is the first girl of Baiga tribe to see the dream to study in IIT. She has already cracked JEE-Main. Her labourer parents, living in acute poverty at Sunehra village in Mandla, preferred to choose her for academics than two sons.
Two students from the marginalised Baiga tribe in Madhya Pradesh crack IIT-JEE Mains exam - IBNLive
