Newspaper vendor is now an IIT graduate: An UP girl's inspiring story

Shivangi's story is nothing less than an inspiration for others as she moved up the ladder despite all the challenges

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Meet Shivangi, a small town girl from Uttar Pradesh who used to sell newspapers and magazines, who did the near unthinkable: graduating from an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

Shivangi's story is nothing less than an inspiration for others as she moved up the social ladder despite all the challenges and graduated from IIT Roorkee.

Shivangi's storywas shared by Anand Kumar, founder of the Super 30 initiative, under which children from disadvantaged backgrounds are provided coaching for the IIT-JEE examination.

Kumar in his Facebook post wrote, “Shivangi, native of Deha village in Uttar Pradesh, used to study at a government school. Her father is a newspaper and magazine vendor and Shivangi used to help her father in his small shop. In whatever little time she could save after the shop work, she used to dedicate it to her studies.” 

Shivangi read about Anand Kumar's Super 30 and moved to Patna to take coaching under Anand Kumar's Super 30 initiative. While at Super 30, she came very close to Anand’s family.

“She would address my mother as ‘dadi’ and we felt she is our daughter. Whenever my mother’s health was impaired, she would help and sleep next to her. Looking at Shivangi, my mother hoped to be blessed with girls in her next birth as well,” wrote Kumar.

Here is the original post as shared by Anand Kumar through Facebook: