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2 Boys From Bengal’s Tribal Belt Make Nobel Laureate’s School Proud


Mahadeb Bagal (left) bought 83.6 per cent and Rohit Mandi scored 74 per cent

Kolkata:

Kolkata’s well-known South Point School’s most up-to-date declare to fame was that Nobel-winning economist Abhijit Banerjee was an alumnus.

Today, the college is equally pleased with its newest achievement. Two college students, who took their Class 10 boards this yr, have scored superb marks. 18-year-old Mahadeb Bagal bought 83.6 per cent and Rohit Mandi scored 74 per cent.

However, South Point normally does a lot better than that. In reality, its topper bought a whopping 99.four per cent within the CBSE examinations this yr.

So what is the large deal?

For a solution to that, you must journey 209 km west of Kolkata to Belpahari. That’s the place Rohit comes from. And Mahadeb is about 25 km away, from Gidhni. This is the guts of Bengal’s tribal belt, the famed Jangalmahal which was additionally the hotbed of Maoist exercise when the 2 boys had been rising up.

Rohit’s father is a financial institution worker. Mahadeb’s father is a every day wager. The two had been classmates on the Belpahari SC School in Class 6 in 2015 when their lives underwent a tectonic shift.

Under instruction of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Rohit and Mahadeb and 9 different college students from this backward belt — together with four ladies — had been despatched to Kolkata, a metropolis none of them had visited earlier than, to South Point School, thought of among the many most elite English medium colleges within the metropolis.

“I couldn’t frame sentences in English,” stated Rohit, “So I really struggled with history and geography.”

“I could understand (English) words but not speak,” stated Mahadeb. “It was really difficult.”

The boys stayed at a government-run hostel for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe youngsters at Salt Lake. The authorities organised language and different topic tuitions for them. Class 7 was a wrestle. But by Class 8, the boys had been on an upward trajectory of their battle with the Queen’s language. And they gained.

Mahadeb bought a smashing 91 per cent in English in his boards and Rohit bought 83 per cent.

Both the scholars — Mahadeb is 18, Rohit might be 18 quickly — will proceed to review at South Point in Class XI and XII. Both had needed to review science. Mahadeb needed to develop into a pc engineer. Rohit needs to develop into an IAS officer. They could not discover a seat within the science stream and had been counselled by lecturers to take up commerce.

The coronavirus pandemic has meant the 2 cannot return to high school simply but. So they’re taking on-line courses. Internet connectivity is a bugbear. Rohit nonetheless manages whereas Mahadeb has a tricky time. Electric provide is such an issue the place he lives, his telephone usually runs out of battery and the connectivity is so poor, he walks round his house, typically for a few kilometres to discover a usable web hyperlink.

No surprise, then, that South Point School may be very pleased with the 2 boys. They excelled at arithmetic, Bengali and English. Their forte was athletics. Both the boys turned icons of envy of the city-bred college students who simply could not compete.

“There were concerns about how the boys would adjust at South Point,” stated Principal Rupa Sanyal Bhattacharya, “because children can be cruel sometimes. But we played up their strengths, their successes in athletics and teachers kept an eye out on any attempt at bullying. There were really none.”

Mahadeb and Rohit joined the college rowing membership and carried out very properly. They plan to proceed with rowing in Class 11 and 12.

“We had no problems in school. Students and teachers were very supportive,” the boys stated.

Meanwhile, Mahadeb additionally writes poetry. Rohit stated, “His poetry writing is excellent and anyone who he shares them with is so impressed.”

Rohit likes taking part in cricket. He even enrolled in a Cricket Academy based by former cricketer Sourav Ganguly in Salt Lake. But his dad and mom had been unable to proceed to pay the charges. So that has stopped.

But each the boys are enthusiastic about their future and hope others additionally get as fortunate as they’ve.

The experiment to pluck the tribal college students out of their typical milieu and provides them alternative to compete with the perfect has clearly labored.

Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee can be pleased with them.

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