The 34-year-old Ramjal Meena has been guarding the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus for four years. Now he is going enrol in the university as a student. Meena, a security guard from Rajasthan has cracked the university’s entrance examination and will now take admission in Bachelor of Arts (BA), Russian (Hons).
“What makes JNU different is that people here do not believe in social hierarchy. Everyone — teachers and students — encouraged me; now they congratulate me. I feel like I have become famous overnight,” Hindustan Times spoke to Meena.
Though Meena had gone to the government school in his village Bhajera, the son of a daily wager had to discontinue his education as he had to help his father to make the ends meet. He also tell the college was far from his village.
“The nearest college was 28-30 km away. Moreover, I had to work to help my father too,” he said.
Source – India Times
