Anu Kumari became the first person in Uchwawal village in Jharkhand’s Latehar district to clear the matriculation examination conducted by the Jharkhand Academic Council.
Uchwawal village, mostly inhabited by the Parahiya tribes — one of the 12 primitive tribes groups (PTGs) in Jharkhand — is 130km northwest of the state capital Ranchi in Manika block of Latehar district.
Eighteen-year-old Anu’s success brought cheer to her father Chalitar Parahiya, 42, who had shown courage to let his daughter pursue studies against the tribe’s practice of marrying off the daughters at an early age.
None of the girls from the village had ever appeared for the board examination earlier, though boys had tried but failed.
Read more of this in a report by Vishal Sharma published in Hindustan Times....
