Agartala, June 8: As Tripura class 10 Madhyamik examination results have been declared, dreams of 38-year-old student Smriti Banik, who is a housewife, got fulfilled.
Smriti Banik, who is a house wife, has not only cleared the examination but also gained higher score than her daughter, Sagarika in the Tripura Class 10 Madhyamik examination.
Smriti Banik scored 255 out of 700 marks in the examination, while Sagarika, the teenager scored 230 marks, a little less than her mother. The duo were enrolled in the Purba Laxmibill Higher Secondary School.
While speaking with an IANS, Smriti said, “When I was three years old, my father died. We were four sisters. My mother had to struggle through poverty and worked at the homes of our neighbours.”
Smriti is a resident of Bishalgarh, about 30 kilometer far from Tripura, capital of Agartala. Her husband Jiban is a vegetable seller who runs the family.
Moreover, Smriti said that it was not an easy task for her to pass the examination after a long break for many years and there’s no alternative but to pass the examination. “Despite my keenness, I had to drop out of the school when I got married in 1996 at the age of 18,” she added.
She further said, “For the past 20 years, I wanted to take the Madhyamik examination, but poverty came in the way.”
Smriti’s now plans to take an admission in Class 11 at the Purba Laxmibill Higher Secondary School in the state. Also, she would like to be at least a graduate also try to complete her post graduation. But, her sole aim is to educate her daughter to at least post graduate level.
“Even though the syllabus has changed since I stopped my studies 20 years ago, I managed to prepare myself with my daughter’s help,” Smriti said. The irony of the situation is that, Smriti is not the only one who has cleared the examination in the state, but many people of her age have also cleared the examination.
Rubi, a 35-year-old woman, who belongs to Kamalpur area of northern Tripura, has also passed the Madhyamik.
Speaking about her life, Rubi said, “When I was a student of Class Nine, my father arranged my marriage and I had to discontinue my education. For the last 20 years I carried this dream and now it is has been fulfilled.”
Also, a 38-year-old Purnima cleared the examination along with her daughter Mananjita from the Badarghat Higher Secondary school of the same area.
Moreover, the Tripura Board of Secondary Education President Mihir Deb said that every year elderly men and women give Madhyamik examination in the state.
Mihir Deb also added, “It’s not that they take the examination to find a government job... but to realise their unfulfilled dreams. It’s surely heartening.”
