18-yr-old becomes 1st to pass Class 10 in Jharkhand village
An 18-year-old girl has become the first in Jharkhand's Uchwawal village to clear the Class 10 exam conducted by the state board. Anu Kumari belongs to the Parahiya tribe which reportedly has a practice of marrying girls at an early age. Her father, a labourer, said, "She insisted on studying against the established norms...the result is before all."