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Tribal students from remote villages in Maharashtra explained Neet

Nagpur: Tribe students, owned by a small farm family from remote villages Gadchiroli and Melghat in Maharashtra, have cleared the entrance test of the new National Feasibility (NEET) 2021 and is immediately expected to start the undergraduate program in medicine.
Suraj Pungati (19), a resident of Nagargunda Village in Bhamragad Taluka from Gadchiroli, was happy to have surpassed his own expectations by scoring 378 of 720 in NEET.
Speaking with PTI, students claim he will be the first person of his taluka to attend medical colleges.
Pungati, the son of a farmer, said there were more than 60 families in his village where he was the first person to take the flow of science and was happy that he would now pursue medicine education.
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Students, who belong to ‘Mariya Gond’, a very vulnerable group of tribes in the state, lost his mother four years ago and had a younger brother who studied in grade 10.
Pungati, who studied at a school in Nagpur, scored 92 percent marks in the 10th Council exam in 2019 and that’s when he decided to become a doctor.
Other tribal students, Sawan Shilalaskar (21), the son of a marginal farmer from a small village named Ghota at Dahrni Taluka from the Melghat region in Amaravati Regency, has scored 294 at 720 in NEET.
The journey for the two students was difficult because of their limited abilities, but they got a ray of hope after knowing about the free training class taken by MBBS students and doctors in Pune through NGOs called lifts (LFU), founded by students and Alumni BJ Medical College in there.
LFU operates for disadvantaged and marginalized students, who do not have access to private coaching, Co-Founder Dr.
Ketan Deshmukh, told PTI.
Pungati attended free coaching classes offered by LFU every day before the locking induced by Covid-19, and then forced to attend a virtual class from the ashram school in Hemalkasa in Gadchiroli due to the lack of internet and telephone connectivity in the 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 regional students since 2017.
“Major Mentor in LFU is a senior medical student.
This year 25 our students, including three of the Maharashtra tribal areas, will take reception in medical colleges.
Many of those who have received training in LFU are now studying in medical colleges and some have joined with us as faculty teachers, “he said.

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