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GURUKUL SCHOL<strong>AR</strong>S - BUDDING ENGINEERS<br />
Sisters Mansa & Monica joined Literacy India through<br />
Pathshala and went on to win the Gurukul<br />
Scholarship. They completed high school at St.<br />
Soldiers School & Rotary Public School. They were<br />
keen to become engineers, an impossible dream for<br />
their father, a vegetable seller by day and security<br />
guard by night and mother, a domestic help. Literacy<br />
India stepped in. We organized for the sisters to be<br />
mentored by Prabhat Agarwal, Literacy India board<br />
member & IITian under the Aravalli Scholar<br />
Programme. After qualifying for the AIEEE<br />
examination, Mansa completed her engineering from<br />
JK institute of Technology, Allahabad and landed a<br />
job with Pemari Technology as a developer, earning<br />
five- figure salary. Monica is completing her<br />
engineering from the Kanpur Institute of Technology.<br />
MENSA INDIA - SCHOL<strong>AR</strong><br />
Aditya, a brilliant student at<br />
Vidyapeeth along with two<br />
classmates was chosen by<br />
Mensa India for gi9ed<br />
children with above average<br />
IQ. He loves studying history<br />
& historical characters in his<br />
spare >me and is not swayed<br />
by the flee>ng entertainment<br />
of social media & the<br />
internet. A local celebrity, his<br />
favorite historical figure is<br />
Maharana Pratap who he<br />
admires for his valour and<br />
ability to protect his people.<br />
Moving from a slum in UFar<br />
Pradesh, his father makes a<br />
living working in a sim card<br />
manufacturing unit.<br />
LITERACY INDIA - 20 YE<strong>AR</strong> SPECIAL EDITION | | Page !6
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