This story is from December 15, 2020

Uttar Pradesh: Farm labourer’s daughter from Bijnor makes it to AIIMS-Delhi

Charul Honariya, an 18-year-old girl, sits on a mat on the terrace of her house at 10am to attend her online classes on her smartphone. She repeats the process at 2pm. This has become a part of her daily routine.
Uttar Pradesh: Farm labourer’s daughter from Bijnor makes it to AIIMS-Delhi
LUCKNOW: Charul Honariya, an 18-year-old girl, sits on a mat on the terrace of her house at 10am to attend her online classes on her smartphone. She repeats the process at 2pm. This has become a part of her daily routine.
Charul, the daughter of an agricultural labourer from Kiratpur village in Bijnor, is among the newly inducted batch of budding doctors at the premier All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.

She is the first from her village to pursue higher education and study medicine. “Girls in my village are forced to drop out of school as they are married off early. I am thankful to my parents for believing in me and allowing me to pursue medicine,” Charul told TOI.
She cracked NEET with an all-India rank of 631 and 10th rank in her category (SC).
A science student, Charul scored 98 in psychology, 97 in biology, 95 each in physics and chemistry and 80 in English, with an aggregate 93% in class 12.
Attending online classes is not an easy task for Charul. Internet connectivity is poor at her house and she gets good signal only on the terrace of her house. Intermittent power supply also hampers studies.
In the absence of a laptop, she takes online class on her smartphone, the only gadget that she has.

Till class 5, she attended a primary school in her village, Kiratpur, 43km from Bjinor district.
It was in class 6 when she made the cut by qualifying the entrance test for admission to VidyaGyan, a rural leadership academy of Shiv Nadar Foundation, in Bulandshahr.
“I remember the times when we would not have even a single rupee in our house. My father had to borrow if we had to buy anything. Till date, we don’t have a refrigerator or a cooler at home,” Charul said.
Expressing happiness over Charul’s success, her father Shaoukeen Singh said, “I feel my dream has come true. She will hold a MBBS degree and work for fellow villagers.”
Shalini Almadi, Charul’s biology teacher, described Charul as an intelligent and sincere girl. “The first day when I walked into her class (when she was in class 9), I found her very focused. She wanted to become a doctor and I could actually see a doctor in her,” said Shalini.
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