Govt schoolboy from Trichy gets seat in IIT Hyderabad

Govt schoolboy from Trichy gets seat in IIT Hyderabad

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Trichy:28.10.2021

P Arun Kumar, a government school student from a hamlet near Manapparai in Trichy who had cleared JEE (advanced), has secured a seat in Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H). Son of labourers, he was allotted BTech Chemical Engineering at the online counselling held on Wednesday.

“I am extremely happy to have been allotted chemical engineering. Getting into IIT was my dream and it has come true. NIT Trichy students guided me during the counselling,”

Arun Kumar told TOI. He secured the IIT-H seat under OBCNCL category in which he secured a rank of 2,503. Sounding confident that he can manage campus life without facing any language barriers, Arun Kumar, a student of Sevalpatty government higher secondary school, said he was keen to enrol in IIT-Madras. “If there are unallotted seats in IITMadras and If I get a chance, I will opt for the institute irrespective of the course available,” he said.

Amid odds, the boy underwent coaching from 2019 under IGNITTE, the teaching club of NIT-Trichy that helps economically backward and government school students. While the club has helped rural students get into NITs, this is the first time a government school student coached by it secured IIT admission. After TOI reported his achievement on October 23, many reached out to him including the district administration and management of SASTRA University, Thanjavur.