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TIMES OF INDIA
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2005-06-29
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No less than eight boys from Patwa Toli, a non-descript locality on the north eastern end of the Gaya municipal area have made it to the IIT.
The boys, all of them who belong to the small weaving community known as Patwas, have been doing consistently well at the IIT and other state-level engineering entrance tests for several years now.
The Patwas, comprising about 900 families of traditional weavers, have hit the headlines on account of the splendid performance of their boys at entrance tests for IIT and other engineering courses.
Till about a decade back, the Gaya Patwas were regarded as one of the most educationally backward communities engaged in weaving from an early age to earn their bread.
But now the boys have started weaving a new dream, which, besides promising to change the fortune of the hard-pressed Patwas, have given them a new enviable status as about 30 boys from the community make it to the engineering colleges, including the prestigious IITs, each year.
The process began in 1991, when Jitendra Kumar became the first Patwa to make it to the IIT. As Jitendra got lucrative jobs before finally making it to the USA, the ultimate destination for most of the IITs, he became a role model for other boys of the community and according to Om Prakash, inspired by Jitendras success, the Patwa Toli boys worked really hard to enter the IITs.
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