Forty-two-year-old Banwari Lal Jaatav was ferrying mud on a regular assignment as a labour under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) near his village Pipahera in Dholpur district of the state. Suddenly, the village pradhan broke the news that his son had cracked IIT (Advanced) exam. Despite being illiterate himself, Jaatav ensured that his three sons and daughter got proper education because of which his eldest son Nitin had cracked the JEE exam securing 499th all-India rank in the SC category. TOI on Tuesday spoke to the family especially on how they will ensure money for further studies of Nitin who had studied at Navoydaya Vidhyalaya for free and managed his IIT coaching with the help of scholarship.

Commenting on the success of his child, Banwari Lal said, "Iski mehnat parivar ki kismat badal degi" (his hard work will change the destiny of the family). However, the family is now concerned about arranging the IIT fee as Nitin wishes to join IIT-Kharagpur and do electrical engineering.

As I am a Dalit, I don't need to pay what candidates of general class pay, but still I need money. Though I have cracked it, money is still a matter of concern for the family as my father is a MNREGA worker," said Nitin Kumar Jaatav while talking to TOI on Tuesday over phone from Dholpur.

Nitin has not just been good at studies, he has also helped his father as a daily wages labourer many a times.

"When my father does it, I too can do it and I have no hesitation in saying that my father is a labourer who has provided me enough to ensure I get proper education," Nitin asserted.

The boy had scored 85% marks in Class X and 84% marks in Class XII.

"I came to know that for poor students, Oil India Super 30 is an institute in Jodhpur that provides coaching for IIT exam. I gave a written exam for it and passed it," he added.