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A twenty-two-year-old is making waves for getting admission into the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A). What makes the story remarkable is that he is the son of a driver.
Hitesh Singh is all set to embark upon a two-year Post-Graduate Program in Food and Agri-Business Management at IIM-A. Singh’s father, Pankaj Singh is currently employed as a driver for the managing director of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (Amul), RS Sodhi, reported The Economic Times.
According to the report, the Singh family migrated from Bihar to Anand, Gujarat, and Pankaj Singh first worked as a security guard, a job from which he was earned a meagre Rs 600 per month.
Meanwhile, Hitesh was a bright student and despite his family’s financial struggles, he did his schooling in a Gujarati medium school and was in the 97 percentile group in Class 12 exams of Physics, Chemistry and Maths.
Apart from his parents, especially his mother who helped him with his studies, Hitesh credits Sodhi for helping mould his IIM dreams.
Sodhi told Indian Cooperative, “All the credit goes to Hitesh only as his perseverance and zeal to do well have led him to this position in life; I and my colleagues would indeed engage him in fruitful discussions but he cracked the exam by dint of his hard labour.”
(With inputs from The Economic Times and Indian Cooperative)
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