Written by UBEER NAQUSHBANDI | Srinagar |
Updated: June 14, 2017 1:28 pm
FOR TARANDEEP Singh,19, his birthday Monday was special. A day earlier, the teenager from Baramulla learnt he had qualified in JEE Advanced, the entrance to the IITs, with the highest rank in Kashmir this year.
Tarandeep, whose all-India rank is 872, feels it could have been better. “But considering the fact that very few [from the Valley] have qualified, I am satisfied,” says the son of a utensil merchant from Kanispora, on the outskirts of Baramulla town. He now hopes to join mechanical or electrical engineering in either IIT Kharagpur, Kanpur or Delhi.
“Let us see if I get…