Poor Farmer’s son makes into IIT

The IIT-JEE 2010 results were announced on Wednesday and 30 of those who made it come from Super 30, Patna’s well-known IIT coaching centre.
It’s a proud moment for Sarvesh Kumar, walking proudly in his house to seek the blessings of his parents. Sarvesh has cracked the IIT-JEE. His family is not very well off, and IIT seemed a distant dream just a couple of years ago. But Sarvesh managed to achieve it thanks to hard work, and his parents’ support.
Our financial condition is not very good. My mother stitches clothes. She does it the entire night so that I can study. My father goes to the village to do farming. Sometimes we do not have enough to eat,” says Sarvesh.
“My son worked very hard. We also worked hard. We did not allow his studies to suffer. So I used to stitches cloths so that he could study,” says Sarvesh’s mother Meera Devi.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way and if the efforts are aided by expert guidance, success is bound to touch one’s feet.
No one would understand it better than Sarvesh, the son of a small time farmer, whose father slogged out in fields and mother on a sewing machine to help their son realise his dreams.
Sound of the sewing machine never really disturbed his study, it rather gave him more conviction to achieve his target.
Living in a two-room house, at times helping his mother with her customers, and cycling 15 kms everyday to his coaching centre, Sarvesh never gave up on his dream. His coaching fees were waived off by his institute. But his parents’ are worried how they will pay the hefty tuition fees at IIT, with their meager income.
“We are planning to take loan,” says his father Sriram Singh.
The zeal to crack IIT-JEE reflects in overall results this year. Over 800 students have cracked IIT-JEE 2010 from Bihar alone. As the momentum picks up in rural Bihar, it would push more Sarveshs on the success path.