Tapan Samanta comes from a village in East Midnapore, where his father earns Rs 30 a day. After topping school in Madhyamik, he had no means to proceed further and started pulling rickshaw-vans to contribute to the family’s meagre income. “I never thought I could become a doctor, even after passing the joint entrance exams (JEE),”said Tapan, doing internship at NRS Medical College and Hospital. He had to “let go of the opportunity to study at Ramakrishna Mission College, Narendrapur,” and started giving tuition and pulling rickshaw-vans before deciding to sit for the JEE. He is now studying MBBS in Calcutta, thanks to scholarships given by the Mani Bhaumik Foundation.
Read more. [Source: Telegraph]
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Realisation of a Dream
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