Poor students
After the results of the SSC exams were published, we saw some news-reports containing pictorial illustrations of a good number of brilliant students belonging to the extremely poor families in the national daily newspapers. Even after facing grinding poverty and having no facilities at all and remaining totally deprived, their excellent results cannot but surprise us.
Many of them used to work as day-labourer putting their labour in the paddy-fields, some of them used to pull rickshaws, could not purchase new books, collected old and torn books from their classmates and friends. They used to take one meal a day, instead of three daily meals.
The children of well-off parents will be provided with all sorts of facilities to continue their studies properly. But the poorest students don't know whether they will be able to continue their studies. Who will look after them?
Under the circumstances, the departments concerned of the government and welfare oriented organisations should come forward to help them.
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