How a Public Library in Pahari Village is Changing Lives: From IIT Dreams to Government Jobs

How a Public Library in Pahari Village is Changing Lives: From IIT Dreams to Government Jobs
Published at : 30 Oct 2024, 3:15 PM IST
Updated at : 30 Oct 2024, 3:47 PM IST

The public library at Pahari village, Haryana, has 13,000 books. It helped Vivek Singh get into IIT Dhanbad, where Tejashwini is preparing for JEE Main 2025.

For Nikita Yadav, who hails from Khetiawas in Haryana, the library at Government Senior Secondary School, Pahari, is six kilometers away. Yet, after sending her child to school daily, Yadav hops on her father-in-law’s motorcycle and goes to the library.

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Government Senior Secondary School, Pahari, is the best government school where the library is at par. The IIT Delhi alumni set it up in 2019. This school library has air-conditioned rooms, separated sections for men and women, eight computers, two printers, 13,000 books, and wifi. The library has been an added boon for the Pahari village, where only 73% are literate, and 31.1 percent of women have been found literate as per the 2011 census.

For a person like Nikita Yadav, who is 28 and studying for the Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test, free-of-cost access to information that otherwise would have been too far or too pricey is the library’s advantage.

“We just became economically stable recently. So, I thought if I could work, I could support the family further,” said Yadav. “Now that my child is old enough to attend school, I can start looking for jobs. The library provides a quiet place away from the business of the home. Here, I can prepare and stick to a schedule.”.

It has already impacted the library. Almost 20 residents of the village who used it would get different jobs under the Haryana government. Some students who utilized the library even made it to IIT and NIT. It inspired the rest of the aspirants from Pahari and the surrounding villages.

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IIT Delhi Alumni Innovation

The library was established through the efforts of the IIT Delhi Alumni Association, led by one of the village’s own, Vinod Kumar Yadav, an alumnus of the Government Senior Secondary, Pahari. He later went on to do his MSc and PhD from IIT Delhi.

He says he always wanted to run a library, and even before joining IIT Delhi, that was one of his dreams, but it is the institution that actually brought it to life.

“When studying in the village, I saw the difficulties. The family priorities were rearing buffaloes and meeting agriculture work, not education. Parents are also only focussing on government jobs. The major idea behind the library was for students to start thinking of getting into IITs, or IIMs,” said Yadav. He believes in the “importance of an enabling environment.”

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“If you give them that, they can blossom. Rural area students have the potential, but that is being neglected. If they see their neighbor study and become successful, there will be competition,” Yadav said.

“The implementing agency was the alumni association. Funding was mainly corporate CSR. IIT Delhi is a well-known institute, so people believe in the social arm. So, the proposal was taken pretty fast,” he said.

The library was funded in two phases. First, Rs 12 lakh was raised to construct the buildings, and later, ONGC donated Rs 18 lakh to complete the construction process. The library was inaugurated in 2019 by V Ramgopal Rao, then director of IIT Delhi.

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The library even employs a librarian whom the gram panchayat initially paid. He is now covered by some other private company based out of Rewari.

Inspiring a village: Pahari Free Library

The free library close to your home has supported job aspirants in several ways by giving them books at home. Most of the 13,000 books the library has were donated by private companies, and they all revolved around recruitment and NTA NEET, NTA JEE Mains, and so on.

Pharmacy student Ritik Yadav, an SSC aspirant, does not need to travel for two hours to Rewari – the nearest town – to get the same facilities. He makes it daily from his village, Khalilpur, to Pahari, which is 3.4 km away. Rajbir Singh, whose son Vivek got into IIT Dhanbad this year, said the library helped them save time and money.

Such stories also motivate regular visitors to the library. Tejashwini, 18 years old, had taken a year off from college to prepare for JEE Main 2025. “Stories like that of Vivek Singh keep me motivated and on track,” she said.

Yadav was the main person behind the library setup and even received calls from the chief minister’s office to replicate the same library system in every government school in Haryana. In 2020, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said the state would set up libraries like this in every village so that village students do not have to go to cities to prepare for competitive exams.

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CUET UG 2025 Exam Application On Till 22 March 2025, All Details Provided Here

CUET UG 2025 Exam Application On Till 22 March 2025, All Details Provided Here
Published at : 3 Mar 2025, 9:31 AM IST
Updated at : 3 Mar 2025, 9:31 AM IST

CUET UG 2025 Exam Application submission is on till 22 March 2025 at ‘https://cuet.nta.nic.in/’

CUET UG 2025 Exam Application
Admission Open in Amity for 2025

The information bulletin for CUET UG 2025 was also be released along with the release of the notification for the exam.

Schedule

CUET UG 2025 Exam application is on from 1 to 22 March 2o25. The application can be submitted till 11:50 PM on 22 March 2025.

CUET UG 2025 exam application fee can be paid till 11:50 PM on 23 March 2025.

Corrections in the CUET UG 2025 exam application submitted can be taken up from 24 to 26 March 2025 (up to 11.50 PM).

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The exam will be conducted from 8 May to 1 June 2025, dates for release of hall ticket, answer key, city intimation slip and result will be announced in due course on the official website.

What is CUET UG 2025 Exam?

The full name of the exam is Common University Entrance Test Undergraduate, it is popular as CUET UG. It is a national-level exam conducted once a year.

CUET UG 2025 is meant to be held for 2025. The exam is conducted online, and answers must be registered on a computer screen at the designated test center.

Admission Open in LPU for 2025

The questions in CUET UG 2025 Exam would be related to languages, general ability and various academic subjects.

Questions will be in a multiple-choice format where each question has more than one reply and the right one among that has to be chosen to get marks.

Post passing the exam, candidates have to visit the websites of various participating institutions and know the schedule for submitting applications for admissions.

Once the schedule is known, students must submit applications there along with CUET UG 2025 Exam scores and other required documents.

Admission Open in VIT for 2025

Who can submit CUET UG 2025 Exam Application?

Candidates who have passed plus two from a recognized educational institution can submit CUET UG 2025 Exam Application.

Subjects in the plus two must be related to the subject in which candidates wish to study graduation.

Candidates can pass plus two in any stream if applying for arts or humanities programs. Applicants targeting commerce in graduation must pass plus two preferably in the commerce stream.

Those aiming for graduation in science can pass plus two in science stream. Students who are about to appear for the qualifying exams or those who have appeared and are waiting for the results can also submit CUET UG 2025 Exam Application.

However, they have to pass the exam and provide proof of it by the time of admission process commencement.

CUET UG 2025 Exam Application

1. The URL mentioned above must be typed into the browser and then submitted to allow the website to download.

2. Once the website is ready, candidates have to scroll down the page and click <CUET (UG) 2025-Registration> under Candidate Activity menu.

3. Clicking the above button will open another webpage with the URL ‘https://examinationservices.nic.in/examsys25/root/Home.aspx?enc=Ei4cajBkK1gZSfgr53ImFYsjZOdyj8DuPcxGBqAK2DwqFCalp/sPjeNMpmZAoiTR’

4. Once the webpage is available, applicants can click the New Registration and create an account with username and password.

5. They can come back to the same page with URL ‘https://examinationservices.nic.in/examsys25/root/Home.aspx?enc=Ei4cajBkK1gZSfgr53ImFYsjZOdyj8DuPcxGBqAK2DwqFCalp/sPjeNMpmZAoiTR’

6. After the page with above URL opens, they can click Login and use their username and password and  submit.

7. Once they login, they start filling the CUET UG 2025 Exam Application.

8. Form has to be filled and registration fee has to be paid and submitted. Candidates can obtain a confirmation message indicating successful submission. Once obtained, applicants can download it and take a printout of it.

How to download hall ticket?

Candidates who have successfully submitted CUET UG 2025 exam application can alone download the hall ticket for the exam from the official website which can be accessed at ‘https://cuet.nta.nic.in/’

Process to obtain hall ticket is mentioned below for the sake of the students:

1. The URL mentioned above has to be typed into the browser and the website should be allowed to download.

2. Once the webpage is available, candidates can click the link for the hall ticket and then enter their username and password and submit them to obtain the hall ticket.

3. The admit card can be downloaded and then a printout of it has to be taken. Applicants have to appear for the exam at the designated test center with the hall ticket.

CUET UG 2025 Exam Application

After the exam

Students have to view the results for the exam, they can visit the official website of the exam at the appropriate time and log in using the credentials they created while submitting CUET UG 2025 exam application.

Post login, the students can view their scorecards. Those who have passed the exam with the required qualifying marks can apply for admission into courses of their choice.

 

 

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