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Vegetable vendor's don tops Class X exam in UP
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Six months ago, fellow villagers and classmates might have ridiculed him for nursing fancy dreams. But now, Sarvesh\'s target in life is very clear. He wants to be an IAS officer \"not only to serve my country but also to alleviate my father\'s hardships\".
Six months ago, fellow villagers and classmates might have ridiculed him for nursing fancy dreams. But now, Sarvesh's target in life is very clear. He wants to be an IAS officer "not only to serve my country but also to alleviate my father's hardships".
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Basti SP Amit Verma honours Sarvesh Verma on MondayHis father was one of the innumerable farmers of Uttar Pradesh grieving over their crop being destroyed by the freak weather. But his grit and gumption outshone the grief and gloom, and Sarvesh Verma emerged as the topper in the class X UP Board examination. In his race to the top, the humble farmer's son pipped about 35 lakh other examinees and secured the acme with an impressive 96.83% marks.
"It's all because of my father. Despite living in such adverse situations, he took a loan to ensure that his son doesn't lose out on education," Sarvesh told dna on phone from his village Sahasrao in Basti district located in a remote and one of the most backward parts of eastern UP.
"Also, I can never forget all that my teachers and principal have done for me," he adds. Though his father has studied till class five, his mother is illiterate. His sister is doing her bachelor's in science.
Six months ago, fellow villagers and classmates might have ridiculed him for nursing fancy dreams. But now, Sarvesh's target in life is very clear. He wants to be an IAS officer "not only to serve my country but also to alleviate my father's hardships".
The road to success, as always, was not easy. Sarvesh used to cycle 12 km every day to his school, the Gajadhar Singh Angad Singh (GSAS) Academy. Woes befell his poor father Swaminath when he lost more than half of the wheat and rice crop this year to the vagaries of weather.
"I used to see my father sell vegetables outside the house, working up to 16 hours a day just to earn some money for us,'' says Sarvesh.
But, luck was on his side as his principal and teachers were thoroughly supportive, and kept motivating him. He won a tablet in a school-level quiz competition, and his school recommended his name to the UP government for an inspiration award.
"I always saw a spark of brilliance in this boy," says GSAS principal RK Tripathi. "We continued to work on him, kept on polishing him, and we are overjoyed at the results he has brought us," he said, adding that Sarvesh never took any tuitions and studied just four to five hours a day even during the exams.
Interestingly, this year, students of small towns have dominated the class X UP Board results. Hani of Archana Memorial Inter College, Etawah, and Bunty Verma of SSPDS Inter College, Kasganj, both with 96.67% marks, logged the second position jointly. Anjali Patel of Young Stream Academy Inter College, Barabanki, a small town about 20 km from here, stood third.
Bunty Verma, also son of a farmer who sells vegetables, scored a perfect 100 in Maths and English. He now dreams of getting into an IIT and wants to become a mechanical engineer.
Hani also scored 100 in Maths, her favourite subject. "I never took any coaching, I studied six hours daily by myself," says Hani, whose father is a manager at a tractor agency in Raipur. She now wants to get admission into an IIT.
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