Dear Mr. Jha
Thanks for the regular information about the State. I gladly inform to you
that Economic Association of Bihar is going to organised a Annual Conference
at Women's College Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. I am sending herewith details of
Conference with attachment. Kindly expedite among the members of Bihar
Chintan

Thanks with regards
Dalip Kumar
NCAER
New Delhi-110002
<<Bihar-Folder-2005.doc>>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: biharchintan@... [SMTP:biharchintan@...]
> On Behalf Of vagish Jha
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:33 PM
> To: Bihar Chintan
> Subject: [biharchintan] Girl from Indian leper colony graduates in UK
>
> Girl from Indian leper colony graduates in UK
> Tuesday, 12 July , 2005, 19:00
>
> <http://headlines.sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13894388&headline=Girl~fr
> om~Bihar~leper~colony~graduates>
>
>
> London: An Indian girl who grew up in a remote leper colony in Bihar has
> overcome all odds to graduate with flying colours from the UK.
>
> Rina (26), one of 3000 Sunderland University students felicitated at a
> graduation ceremony on Monday, has perhaps faced more challenges in her
> young life than her fellow students.
>
> Not content with three A-levels in Pharmacy, Rina is now concentrating on
> her next challenge - medical school. She also hopes to return to India to
> help fight the disease that devastated her family.
>
> "To be a qualified pharmacist and to know about healing drugs is
> wonderful, but to be a doctor who can prescribe those drugs would be the
> perfect combination," Rina was quoted as saying by The Telegraph here on
> Tuesday.
>
> "So many people in India do not understand that leprosy can be simply
> cured with drugs - that if you catch the disease early it can take only
> three months to heal the skin," she said.
>
> Rina was barely seven years old when her father was afflicted with
> leprosy. Driven out of their village, her illiterate father was reduced to
> begging at Raxaul near the Nepal border, before the family found shelter
> at a leprosy mission in Sunderpur.
>
> Having picked up reading and writing skills at the mission school, Rina's
> life changed for the better after a chance meeting in 1994 with Lady Patsy
> Puttnam of Queensgate, who was touring community projects in India.
>
> Impressed by the teenager's desire to learn, Lady Puttnam and her friend
> Daphne Rae arranged for a scholarship position for Rina at the Gordonstoun
> public school in Scotland.
>
> After that, there was no looking back. Today, no one can be more proud of
> Rina than her guardian Lord Puttnam, who also happens to be the Chancellor
> of Sunderland University.
>
> "It's a wonderful achievement. She has an extraordinary combination of
> vision and determination," he said.
>
> "The great thing about her is that she has this genuine personal ambition,
> but, like a lot of people in the developing world, she also understands
> the purpose of that ambition, which is that it should be used for the
> public good," he added.
>
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