Farmer's Son on Forbes 2022 List!!!

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Raju Kendre of Buldana has been named in the list published by forbes Magazine. The farmer's son has done his best. 



Raju Kendre is currently studying Development Studies at SOAS-University of london on a Chevening Scholarship. It has been included in the 2022 'Forbes 30 Under 30' list.


A detailed list and story were published in the february issue of forbes India. The list will also be available online this week. 


It is a matter of great responsibility with joy for the youth coming from the disadvantaged and first-generation learners. Raju Kendra Eklavya india guides students to promote higher education. 



It enables grassroots leadership for first-generation learners like myself. He is currently studying at SOAS.


The journey was not easy as there was not much smell of education in the nomadic community. Primary and secondary education in the village Zilla Parishad school. 


Later, with the help of hostel, social welfare hostel, we were able to get an education in Buldana's Bharat school till 12th standard. He reached pune to become a collector. No one found a strong guide in those days. I had to leave pune in just a few months.


Finally, admission to pune University had to be shifted to Open University. While studying at an open university, while working with a tribal group in Melghat, he found a new way and his dream of becoming a collector fell through the jungle. In the last ten years, the journey from Melghat to london has taken a new turn.



I am doing my research project in london on 'Higher education and Inequality in India'. I want to come back as soon as the degree is done and start working with new breath. 



Once back, I want to get back on the ground in a few months. We all need help with this. We want to discuss the subject of higher education in different colleges and villages.



In the meantime, we have to understand the situation on the ground and work at the organizational level, he wrote in a data-facebook post.



Through Eklavya, in the last four years, more than 300 first-generation students have been studying at national level institutes like Tata Institute, Azim Premji University, IITs, Central Universities. 



Along with that, some are working in different fellowship programs. Raju Kendra has also written in the post that in the future, hundreds of Eklavyas will start shining globally.

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