Four students from the Kashmir Valley have cracked one of the most prestigious and toughest examinations in India, the Indian Institutes of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), bringing laurels to the state.
What is remarkable that normally students prefer to go outside the valley for professional coaching to crack the exam, but Kaleem Khan, Malik Aneeb, Aaqib Amin and Arif Reyaz Sheikh made it to IIT – the result for which was declared on Sunday, June 12 – without moving outside the state.
Normally, only one or two students used to make it to IIT every year from the valley, but it is perhaps for the first time since the inception of the first IIT in 1951 that four students of a mentoring centre made it to the coveted institutes, giving a proud moment to the people of J&K.
