Nagpur: Tribal Students, owned by a small farm family of remote villages Gadchiroli and Melghat in the state, have cleared the entrance test of the new national feasibility (NEET) 2021 and is immediately expected to start a bachelor’s undergraduate degree program in medicine.
Suraj Pungati (19), a resident of Nagargunda Village in Bhamragad Taluka from Gadchiroli, has been happy to have exceeded its own expectations by scoring 378 of 720 in NEET.
Students, who studied at a school in Nagpur, claimed he would be the first person of him.
Taluka attended medical college.
Pungati said there were more than 60 families in his village where he was the first to take the flow of science.
Teens are happy that he will now pursue medical education.
He who included ‘Mariya Gond’, a very vulnerable tribal group in the state.
He lost his mother four years ago.
His sister was studying at STD X.
Students decided to become a doctor after scoring 92% in the STD X board exam in 2019.
Other tribal students, Sawan Shilalaskar (21) from a small village named Ghot in Amaravati District, has scored 294 of 720 in NEET .
The trip was difficult for students because of their limited ways, but they saw a ray of hope after knowing about the free training class taken by MBBS students and doctors in Pune.
NGOs called lifts for upliftment (LFU), were founded by students and alumni of BJ Medical College there.
“LFU operates for disadvantaged and marginalized students, who do not have access to private training,” said Co-Founder Dr.
Ketan Deshmukh.Pungati attended a free training class every day before Covid -19-induced locking, and then forced to attend a virtual class From the ashram school in Hemalkasa at Gadchiroli because of the lack of internet and telephone connectivity in his village.
ShilaSlas, whose father works in other people’s land and has a little income, knowing about the free coaching class of his senior.
He mostly studied for Neet from his village with the guidance of the LFU mentors online.
Deshmukh said they had a special batch called ‘ulgula’ for Melghat students since 2017.
“The majority of mentors in LFU are senior medical students.
This year 25 our students, including three of the Maharashtra tribal areas, will take reception in medical colleges.
Many of them Those who have received training in LFU are now studying in medical colleges and some have joined us as faculty teachers, “he said.
PTI.