After the results of IIT-JEE Advanced have been declared coming across news of how students from very modest background have succeeded, now comes the news of two students from the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups of Adilabad in Telengana have cleared the examinations.
This is the first time anyone from these tribes, recognised as endangered, will go to an engineering college.
The two belong to the Kolam and Manne tribes. The population of the Kolam and Manne tribes, found only in Telangana, is less than 3,000 each. Four other tribal students, including a girl, of the Gond and Lambada communities have cleared the entrance.
Read more of this in a report by Sreenivas Janyala in The Indian Express.....
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