India's youngest PhD scholar is the daughter of a sanitation worker
15-year-old Sushma Verma is the youngest PhD student in India and her father is a sanitation worker by profession.
IndiaToday.in | New Delhi, September 24, 2015 | KC Archana
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India is a country where people in the rural areas are still not very open to encouraging a girl to pursue higher education. More than 35 per cent of girls are discouraged from going to school, let alone college.However, Suhma Verma's story is entirely different.
Sushma was awarded a place in the Limca Book of awards as she was the youngest student to clear the 10th grade exam. She completed her 10th grade at the young age of 7. By the time she was 13, she was pursuing her Masters is Microbiology in Lucknow University, where her father was working as a sanitation worker.
Now at the age of 15 she has enrolled for a PhD program in Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University. The Vice Chancellor of the BBA college Dr. RC Sobti helped her father, Tej Bahadur, by getting him job as a sanitation supervisor at the campus. Her mother is a home-maker.
Sushma is not the only one to have achieved great strides in the field of education in her family, her elder brother Shailendra also became the youngest computer science graduate at the age of 14.
Sushma and Shailendra are truly an inspiration to all of us.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...daughter-of-a-sanitation-worker/1/481854.html
15-year-old Sushma Verma is the youngest PhD student in India and her father is a sanitation worker by profession.
IndiaToday.in | New Delhi, September 24, 2015 | KC Archana
India is a country where people in the rural areas are still not very open to encouraging a girl to pursue higher education. More than 35 per cent of girls are discouraged from going to school, let alone college.However, Suhma Verma's story is entirely different.
Sushma was awarded a place in the Limca Book of awards as she was the youngest student to clear the 10th grade exam. She completed her 10th grade at the young age of 7. By the time she was 13, she was pursuing her Masters is Microbiology in Lucknow University, where her father was working as a sanitation worker.
Now at the age of 15 she has enrolled for a PhD program in Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University. The Vice Chancellor of the BBA college Dr. RC Sobti helped her father, Tej Bahadur, by getting him job as a sanitation supervisor at the campus. Her mother is a home-maker.
Sushma is not the only one to have achieved great strides in the field of education in her family, her elder brother Shailendra also became the youngest computer science graduate at the age of 14.
Sushma and Shailendra are truly an inspiration to all of us.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/...daughter-of-a-sanitation-worker/1/481854.html
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