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| The report, a little sketchy, even says Mahesh had tried to sell his kidney in desperation. |
January 23, 2016, NewsCrunch
Mahesh Balmiki, a second-year mining student at IIT-BHU, has reportedly dropped out to work as a sweeper due to poverty.
He had borrowed Rs 2.7-lakh to fund his education and had come under pressure to pay it back. He had also gone through a long bout of illness.
The Times of India reports that Mahesh’s father is paralysed and mother is a domestic help. Without support he had to take up a job as sweeper at his village in Rajasthan's Alwar, for just Rs 4,000 a month.
There was some help from social activist Sandeep Pandey, who was at IIT-BHU, as a contract lecturer. Pandey reached out to BHU alumni to raise funds to pay off Mahesh’s loan.
It is not clear why Pandey did not press the alumni further to save Mahesh's studies.
Pandey himself was controversially terminated by IIT-BHU allegedly for being a Naxal sympathiser.
The Times of India report, a little sketchy, even says Mahesh had tried to sell his kidney in desperation. But there were no takers as he was a dalit, he claims.
The Times of India reports that Mahesh’s father is paralysed and mother is a domestic help. Without support he had to take up a job as sweeper at his village in Rajasthan's Alwar, for just Rs 4,000 a month.
There was some help from social activist Sandeep Pandey, who was at IIT-BHU, as a contract lecturer. Pandey reached out to BHU alumni to raise funds to pay off Mahesh’s loan.
It is not clear why Pandey did not press the alumni further to save Mahesh's studies.
Pandey himself was controversially terminated by IIT-BHU allegedly for being a Naxal sympathiser.
The Times of India report, a little sketchy, even says Mahesh had tried to sell his kidney in desperation. But there were no takers as he was a dalit, he claims.