The boy would then wash his uniform almost every day, except during the rains, as he had only one uniform which he also wore at home. I studied before a lantern till late into night after helping my father in fields during the day,” recalled Suresh. The teen, who had not heard of the IIT-JEE till then and who had never gone out of Sitamarhi, started dreaming big. “He said, ‘IIT will change your life for the better for good’,” Suresh recalled and added life for him became a bigger challenge from that day onwards. Impressed with Suresh’s academic records, he counselled him to take the IIT-JEE. While in ISc, Suresh had a chance meeting with a classmate’s IITian brother. However, his father Chhatar Ram, whose earning was not only meagre but also irregular, did not let him drop out of his Kendriya Vidyalaya in Sitamarhi. He was all of ten years when he lost his mother. Suresh’s journey to success was not easy. This son of a landless farmer of Sitamarhi’s Adhkani village, however, struggled his way to do civil engineering from IIT-Delhi and recently bagged a job in an infrastructure consultancy firm with a pay package of Rs 6 lakh per annum. PATNA: Time was when Suresh Ram and his parents would live on “bhuja” (dry, fried rice) for days. Landless farmer’s son lands Rs 50,000 per month job In this post, I have two good inspirational write ups for you about two Boys who struggled in their life and finally made it to IITs.
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