Life is not a bed of roses! You might have heard this, but when in some cases you actually see it, is when you believe it. Yet what inspires is that such people who are sitting on a chair of thorns since the beginning of their lives, live it with dignity, inspire millions and never complain.
Such is the life of IAS Ummul Kher. A girl who suffered from Bone fragility since her childhood, lived in a slum in New Delhi, yet pursued her education and cracked Civil Services Exam in one attempt to become an IAS. How could she dare? It’s because she thought of it in the first place. Check out her success story below.
IAS Ummul Kher: Success Journey
For Ummul it is not just the UPSC Civil Services Exam success, but her success in life. She started with a tough one but dared to choose a comfortably tougher one ahead of her. I am personally a fan of those who dare to achieve and do not whine. Ummul Kher is one of them.
Childhood Struggles:
Ummul was suffering from the bone fragile disease since her nonage. This girl belonged to a place called Marwar in Rajasthan. Ummul was born in a very conservative family and moved to New Delhi when she was five. Her family lived in a slum in Nizamuddin where her father was a cloth vendor and when slums were demolished there, Ummul's family moved to another slum area known as Trilokpuri.
Her bone disorder grew with age and she even had to undergo 16 fractures and 8 surgeries due to this.
She studied in Pt Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Physically Handicapped till class 5. Later she was shifted to a Government-run charitable organization, Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust to study till class 8.
When she was stopped from studying in class 8th, she left her house and started living alone in the Jhuggi Jhopri (JJ) Clusters, Trilokpuri.
UPSC Exam:
She also started giving tuition to slum students to support herself. She completed her graduation and got her Master's degree in International Studies at JNU.
In 2013, she secured a Junior Research Fellowship at JNU under which she hot a stipend of INR 25000 per month.
Ummul cleared UPSC Civil Services in her first attempt in the year 2017. She secured the rank of 420 in her first attempt and became an IAS officer.
Ummul's life is an inspiration to millions of people of the world who complain about their lives being full of problems. Your life is what you make it. If a girl from a slum, who was thrown out of her family for pursuing studies, battling with bone deformities and sickness fulfil her dreams and live a life she was not destined to but what she designed for herself, so can you.
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