Bhubaneswar: Born in humble families they were reconciling to their fate, but destiny had written a different course for them.
Braving all odds, a select group of medical aspirants of Odisha coming from humble background have got entry in medical colleges after clearing tough NEET examination in 2020.
Their dream of becoming medicos got wings due to noble initiative of an Odisha-based charitable group whose all the 19 students succeeded in the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), the results of which were declared in October.
The winners are wards of daily labourer, vegetable seller, truck driver, fisherman and idli-vada seller.
These meritorious students are products of Zindagi programme run by a non-governmental organisation of academician Ajay Bahadur Singh, who himself had to experience pangs of hunger and scarcity of money in childhood which prevented him from becoming a doctor.
Majority of them got admission in government medical colleges of the state.
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