Winning Against Odds: Daughters Of Marginalized Farmers Score Over 99% In JEE Mains 2020!

Girl students¡¯ response to stereotypes ('girls are a burden', 'no need to invest in their education', etc), time and again has been their topping and grabbing first positions in various fields and exams. Be it CBSE boards or UPSC exams, girl students have been top performers, irrespective of their financial backgrounds - now, a couple of girls have done it again.

Simran of Hasangarh village in Rohtak and Kajal of Indachoi village in Fatehabad, scored 99.47% and 99.31% respectively in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE, Mains) 2020.

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Both are daughters of marginalized farmers and they, along with 46 other students, were enrolled in the ¡®Super-100 programme¡¯ of Haryana government. Of the 48 students enrolled under the program, 46 passed the examination.

Talking to Hindustan Times over the phone, Simran said cracking the JEE mains is like a dream come true but it is the JEE Advanced exam that she is really aiming for.

¡°I had studied at a government school in our village till Class 10 and secured over 90%. My father owns less than two acres of land. He had met with an accident a few years ago and remained paralysed for sometime but still managed to provide me and my siblings with good education,¡± Hindustan Times quoted Simran as saying. She plans to become a computer science engineer to be able to support her family.

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Kajal gives the credit of her success to the ¡®Super 100 programme¡¯. She intends to complete her engineering from IIT and then give tuition to underprivileged students. Naveen Mishra, head teacher of the super 100 programme at Rewari, along with his five IITian friends, has been giving coaching free of cost to the students.

The parents of the girls are proud of them, and so are we.