"Founder of the Migration Story, India Shubham Sabar, 19, was working at a construction site in Bengaluru, capital of India's southern Karnataka state, when he received a phone call from his teacher back home, hundreds of miles away in Odisha state, telling him he had passed the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Neet) India's tough admissions examination for undergraduate medical and dental colleges."
"Sabar, who was born to farm worker parents, studied late into the night for the exam, which nearly 2.3 million applicants sat. He knew that education was the only way he could help his family and the tribal community in his village, where people first pray for a cure before seeing a doctor, as Sabar told Ghosh in the video report."
"Like tens of thousands of other Indians, he migrated from his village to work at a construction site to support his family, but also to save money for his higher education. Children passing highly competitive exams for entry to medicine, engineering or civil services are widely celebrated in India, and coaching classes charge huge sums of money to prepare students for the tests, which are failed by nearly half of all entrants."
Shubham Sabar, a 19-year-old from a tribal village in Khordha district, Odisha, passed the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) after studying late into the night while working at a construction site in Bengaluru to support and save for higher education. He will join Maharaja Krishna Chandra Gajapati Medical College in Berhampur. He lacked access to expensive coaching yet competed among nearly 2.3 million applicants, a cohort in which roughly half failed. His family are farm workers who hope his medical education will enable him to help his family and provide healthcare access for his village, where people often pray before seeking doctors.
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