I'd like to become a Dakshana scholar and hopefully attend IIT because I am from below the poverty line and my parents cannot support me financially to get expensive coaching for the IIT. Both my parents are uneducated and I am from a remote area where there is a lack of proper education facilities. Since 9th class I have been educated by central government free of cost. I keen interest in questioning certain phenomena in nature. I am curious how Newton discovered the laws of gravitation by sitting under an apple tree. When I read my text books or other science articles, I have deep thoughts and doubts that puzzle me. But when I bring these doubts in front of my teachers, they do not give me a satisfactory explanation. Now I believe that by becoming a Dakshana scholar I will receive good faculty to teach me. I think that I will not be confused any longer. TIME institute?s faculty and study material are very informative. After this, my hopes of becoming a future IIT?ian have risen in my mind. I think that adversity is God?s real gift. That is why I took up the challenge to crack the IIT-JEE. But when I proposed that I want to undertake coaching for IIT-JEE in front of my parents, they told me that they are poor. Today, being a Dakshana scholar is keeping my hope alive. If I become an IIT?ian tomorrow, and then become an engineer, I would surely support Dakshana foundation to fund future scholars.

From JNV Raichur, Karnataka.
Coaching Location: JNV Bengaluru Urban. Karnataka. (IIT-JEE 2007-09).

Graduated from: National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka
Stream: Communication Engineering
Placed at: LSI Corporation
Designation: Physical Design Engineer

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