A start-up, an IITian and a Bihari: Ingredients together kick for Industry!

Gone those days when people used to think Biharis as illitrate and the negative perception that Biharis are the one who have taken their jobs and seats in colleges have faded away. Although the recent Bihar Topper Scam has yet again given them one more interesting topic to “gossip” about but there are people across this state, who despite of all the breakers kick out their accelerating speed to help every single hand that comes in the way.

Three young IIT graduates and a DTU gratuate, all belonging from Bihar, left their lucrative corporate jobs in Delhi and other cities and went all the way to Kashmir only to mentor the students there.
They have founded a institute named RiSE in srinagar to provide a platform of studying Science and Technology to get through IIT exams for many unprevilaged native students

Mobeen Masudi, an alumni of IIT-Bombay and also a second rank holder in CAT (2012-2013) is a native of Kashmir. Imbesat Ahmed who hails from Patna and is student of Loyola School, Patna and also a graduate from IIT Kharagpur while Salman Shahid of Darbhanga is also from IIT Kharagpur. Saifi Karim from Delhi Technological University (DTU) had his schooling from Mujjafarpur and Md.Neyaz Ahmed, an IIT Delhi graduate did his schooling from AL-Hira Public School, Patna.

When Mobeen visited his hometown in 2012 it was then when he realised that his dream job was not what he did in Delhi, instead he wanted to do something for the unprivileged in Kashmir and then it was in 2013 when he left his job and started his work there. Earlier Mobeen was alone and the others came during the vacations to teach the students but then it was in 2015 that five of them finally formed a group. They conducted a talent search test with a little financial help from J&K Bank where 15,000 students took the test free of cost and 60 were selected. Few selected students were from villages close to India-Pakistan border. But not all students turned up because of the trust deficit in a new institute.

Recalling his journey to ‘RiSE’, Imbesat said, “I came to Kashmir in 2012 for an education programme and there only I met Mobeen who was running an institute. I then decided to join him as I also wanted the students to achieve something. Later, our friends joined and finally we formed ‘RiSE’ for the students”. “Four of our students made it to the IIT and 35 others to various NITs this year. We didn’t charge any fee from 18 of our students but took a nominal fee of Rs. 1,000-1,200 per month that included the cost of the study material from the students who could afford.

The founder of ‘RiSE’, Mobeen, informed that “the institute is being run on the lines of Super 30 by Abhayanand, ex-DGP Bihar police in Bihar who had mentored Imbesat during his IIT Preparation days, which also mentors the students from the unprivileged backgrounds We want Kashmir students to be represented well among all prestigious institutes and this can be achieved only through education.

“Running an institute in a valley is not at all an easy task as we all know the situation here and then the frequent curfews and bandhs have also created hurdles and our students have suffered, said Imbesat”.
So, to overcome this problem they have even provided RiSE edu-tablet to students through which several assignments are given to them regularly. Neyaz on the other hand has designed an app which requires minimum internet access that further helps the students to continue with their studies even if they are not attending the classes.

Kashmir’s schools and institutes have a very good infrastructure but on the other hand percentage of student’s attendance is quite low.
-Imbesat Ahman

Now, these young Biharis are also planning to set up something similar like ’RiSE’ in their hometowns. “We want to set up ‘RiSE’ in the interiors of Bihar."

BolBihari wishes all of those students All The Best and wishes for great future!!!

[The quotation part is copied from an interview of one of the members with NDTV with thanks.]

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