Hyderabad, TELANGANA :

In a test in which 1.5 million young girls and boys appeared, Hina Mohammadi Begum got admission into the prestigious medical institution

New Delhi :

With sheer determination and hard work, the daughter of an auto rickshaw driver living in abject poverty in Hyderabad has secured a free seat at Shadan Medical College in Telangana.

The 20-year-old girl, Hina Mohammadi Begum, who found it difficult to get coaching for NEET performed impressively in the National Eligibility Entrace Test, an all India competitive test for admission in Medical colleges across India.

In a test in which 1.5 million young girls and boys appeared, she got admission into the prestigious institution, reports Gulf News.

The significance of her achievement can be gaged from the fact that a medical seat in management quota costs a student Rs 12 million or more.

The private medical colleges in India offer medical seats in various categories. ‘A’ category seats are filled on the basis of scores in NEET and they carry much less fee. But in the management quota the seats go to the highest payer of what is called a “donation to the college”. Begum secured the seat in the first category.

Dream come true

“It was my dream since childhood to become a doctor and I could become possible because of the sacrifices and hardship of my father and by the grace of Allah”, she said.

What makes her story remarkable was the fact that she was the eldest of four sisters who stays with their maternal grand parents as their father can not afford even a rented house. The family stays in a slum area in Chadarghat on the bank of river Musi with high tension electric tower and wires casting their long shadows over them.

“My father’s earning as an auto driver is hardly sufficient to meet our basic requirements but he never compromised on our education. All my three sisters are also pursuing education and have dreams of their own”, she added.

“This is because for the poor education is the only salvation”, said her father Maqbool. “I will do everything possible to help my daughters to get good education”.

He gave credit to the untiring efforts, single minded focus and hard work of her daughter for her success. “Her only interest was study”, he added.

Begum did her schooling from Model Government High School and junior college from MM government junior college and came out with flying colors despite the poor reputation of government educational institutions.

“In SSC I secured 9.5 points and in Junior college I got 97.6 per cent marks”, she said. “In fact I wanted to do a long term coaching for NEET while in Junior College but financial problems did not allow it. Finally I did coaching in MS Junior college during 2019-20 and it paid off.”.

Now an elated Begum is looking towards the future with more confidence and determination. “I have plans to pursue post graduation in neurology after finishing MBBS”, she declares emphatically.

source: http://www.clarionindia.net / Clarion India / Home> India / by Clarion India / December 20th, 2020