18 Students From One Village in Bihar Crack IIT

After the brilliant performance of students from the famed Super 30 institute, comes another success story from Bihar.

18 students from Bunkaron village near Gaya in south Bihar are among some 26,000 candidates who have cracked the entrance exam to the IIT or Indian Institute of Technology. And in a first, a girl from the village has also made it to the list of successful candidates.

"The environment here is so good that everyone studies together, everyone helps each other out if there is any difficulty," said Rahul Kumar, one of the successful candidates.

Almost every house in this village of 10,000 has a power loom, but despite the harsh voice and other odds these children put in the effort to crack the exam.

Villagers say the declining powerloom business led their children to take up education seriously and now the results can be seen. "The children who have passed IIT previously help the sudents here on how to prepare for the exams, there is an NGO for that as well," said Yugeshwar Prasad, the father of one of the successful students.

Source: NDTV