When Harshal Chavhan made it to IIT-Hyderabad for a master’s degree in development studies after clearing a rigorous selection process, the 24year-old’s parents didn’t share his joy. “My parents don’t know what an IIT is. They didn’t even complete their matriculation exams,” says the first-generation learner from Yavatmal. Chavhan’s isn’t an isolated case. The Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, which has seen thousands of farmer suicides, has become the cradle of an education movement — an initiative by first-generation learners to get hundreds of other first-generation learners to premier institutes of higher studies.
Chavhan, whose father works as a driver on hire, credits his success to another first-generation learner Raju Kendre who is a postgraduate in social work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Tuljapur. “The biggest hurdle for first-generation learners is that they have no one in the family to guide them. We lack confidence and don’t have the skills to crack interviews,” says Chavhan.
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