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Anam Zafar becomes first MANUU student to get All India Rank 1 in UGC NET JRF

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Chandanpatti Village (Darbhanga District) BIHAR / Hyderabad, TELANGANA :

Hyderabad:

Here is an amazing story of a single mother and her only child who brought tears of joy to her eyes by securing the first rank in the UGC-NET JRF examination.

Anam Zafar, 25, secured the 100 percentile in the examination. Her mother, Rehana Khatoon, lives in Chandanpatti village, Darbhanga district in Bihar. When Rehana Khatoon heard about the feat achieved by her daughter she could not stop tears flowing down her cheeks.

Anam Zafar is in the last leg of her M Ed fourth semester at Maulana Azad National Urdu University.

The Department of Education and Training felicitated Anam Zafar at a special event organised on Wednesday, two days after the news broke out. Faculty members, students, and university officials gathered to celebrate her exceptional accomplishment.

During the ceremony, the faculty members praised Anam Zafar’s dedication, perseverance, and commitment to excellence. Her achievement was highlighted as a role model for aspiring researchers.

Prof Shaheen A Shaik, Head of the Department, commended her hard work and stated, “Anam Zafar’s achievement is a testament to the high academic standards and research culture at MANUU. Her success will inspire many students to aim for excellence.”

Alongside Zafar, the department also felicitated other students who successfully qualified for UGC-NET and JRF. Their accomplishments were celebrated as a collective success of the university’s academic environment and the faculty’s dedicated mentorship.

Anam’s mother was divorced by her husband when the girl was only eight years old. Working as a teacher at a private school for Rs 800 a month, Rehana Khatoon enrolled her child in a school that worked under the Central Board of Education.

According to sources at MANUU, except for Anam’s uncle (her father’s brother), no one checked on her condition during her difficult years. Treading a difficult social and economic path her mother enrolled her in B Ed at the Centre for Teachers’ Education of MANUU in Darbhanga. Her obvious next step was joining M Ed of the University at Hyderabad.

In the meantime, she was married to Johar Ali, a technocrat working with a private firm in Hyderabad. The couple lives in the Lingampally area, close to the MANUU campus.

Anam says she could not have trodden the difficult road so far if her mother had not encouraged her at every step. “Now my husband has joined my mother and wishes me to complete PhD,” she said.

Anam, as a research fellow is expected to get about Rs 45,000 per month.

She expressed gratitude to her mother, mentors, faculty members, and family for their continuous support and encouragement and credited the university’s academic environment and guidance from her professors as key factors behind her success.

source: http://www.siasat.com / The Siasat Daily / Home> News> Hyderabad / by Mir Ayoob Ali Khan / February 26th, 2025

Steely resolve scores over odds

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WEST BENGAL :

Students of Bethune Collegiate School all smiles after the Higher Secondary results were announced on Friday. Picture by Bishwarup Dutta
Students of Bethune Collegiate School all smiles after the Higher Secondary results were announced on Friday. Picture by Bishwarup Dutta

Calcutta:

One fought marriage, another gave up on buddy time and a third doesn’t want to burden his father. All three shone in the Higher Secondary results.

Metro tells their spirited stories

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Rehana Khatoon, 83 per cent

Namkhana Union High School

Rehana Khatoon would have been married off after her Madhyamik had it not been for her headmaster’s intervention.

She has scored 83 per cent in her Higher Secondary aggregate.

Her father, a tailor and a part-time wood-cutter, has had to spend all his savings on getting his two elder daughters married and could ill afford the education of the youngest.

“We convinced the family that Rehana could get Rs 25,000 as assistance if she completed her Higher Secondary and took admission in a college under the state government’s Kanyashree-2 scheme. They relented,” said Alok Maity, the headmaster of Rehana’s school.

Rehana’s father, Taiyab Ali, spends the week working as a tailor in Howrah and goes to Namkhana on weekends to cut wood. “I earn just about Rs 4,000 a month,” he said.

Rehana herself teaches kids to raise money. “I earn Rs 1,000 a month which I use to pay my fees and buy books,” she said.

Rehana is unsure if she can go to college. “I don’t know if my father can bear the expenses. I want to take up nursing and midwifery,” she said.

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Swarupa Dhar, 91.6 per cent

Ghoshpara Nischinda Balika Vidyapith

She did not go out with friends for movies and did not own a smart phone till two days ago. But none of it bothered Swarupa Dhar as she did not want to financially burden her father, who works at a sari shop in Burrabazar and earns about Rs 6,000 a month.

Swarupa’s score of 91.6 per cent in the Higher Secondary exams is a reward for her father Subhas Dhar, who had to drop out of college but wants his daughter to study.

“I do not want or expect things to change drastically from here because if I start getting what I am not used to, my focus might shift. All I want is to complete my studies,” said Swarupa who topped her school and wants to pursue accountancy.

The 17-year-old has always had few demands. “It was only recently that she had wanted a smartphone because she will now go to college,” mother Rita said.

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Souvik Ghorai, 69.6 per cent

Krishnachandrapur High School

Souvik Ghorai was busy working on the field with his parents when his friends went to collect their Higher Secondary mark sheets from school.

The boy who scored 69.6 per cent from Krishnachandrapur High School in South 24-Parganas is certain he cannot go to college.

“We barely make enough to eat and live,” said Souvik, who was dropping out of school after Madhyamik before headmaster Chandan Maiti intervened.

“If we can find someone to sponsor or collect some money to fund his education, Souvik will be able to go to college,” Maiti said, headmaster.

Even when in hostel, Souvik would make it a point to travel to his village Samsara in West Midnapore on weekends because he had to go to Kolaghat to sell flowers at dawn.

“It took me about six hours to travel home by train and bus. Around 3am on Sundays, I would collect flowers and got to Kolaghat to sell them. I would make Rs 300 to 400 in a day,” Souvik said.

source: http://www.telegraphindia.com / The Telegraph,Calcutta,India / Home> Calcutta / by Subhankar Chowdhury and Jhinuk Mazumdar / June 09th, 2018