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This news will definitely motivate all those who gets dishearten easily with small failures in life. A girl from Maharashtra has cleared MBBS exam with first class result despite losing both her legs in an accident. Name of this Jogeshwari, Mumbai resident is Raushan Jawwad. — whose father is a pushcart vegetable vendor in the western suburbs — secured a first class in her final MBBS examination eight years after losing both her legs in a train accident at Jogeshwari in 2008. And biggest of them that she was ’88 per cent handicapped’. According to medical rule only those candidate with “up to 70% handicap” can qualify to study medicine. She challenged this rule in court which finally agreed that she should be given admission in medical college. Raushan, who scored over 92.15% in her Class X exams in 2008, Reportedly she lost both her legs after being pushed out of a crowded local train near Andheri.
Narrating her nightmares, Raushan was quoted by TOI as saying, I cleared the state’s medical entrance exam, MHCET, and was later asked to go for a medical test for the handicapped at JJ Hospital. I was denied admission as I had 88% disability.” Praising doctor who supported her in achieving this feat, she further said “Orthopedic surgeon Dr Sanjay Kantharia who operated on me helped me like I was his daughter. Even after the accident in 2008, I did not drop out and studied at home and appeared for exams”. She was returning home after writing her college exam papers at Bandra’s Anjuman-i-Islam Girl’s college. When she neared the door at Andheri station, she could not control her balance when the other women commuters started jostling. She fell onto the tracks and her legs came under the moving train. Hearing Raushan’s screams, some commuters pulled the chain and the train was stopped. In the accident, she had her lower limbs severed at the ankle and the thigh. On Wednesday, though, Raushan sounded both relieved and happy. Seated on a plastic mat at her 10×10 rented home in a chawl in Jogeshwari, she said she had to fight a financial as well as a legal battle for her education and even had to made several rounds of the court before Chief Justice Mohit Shah directed the college to induct her. “When she can come all the way to court, why do you think she won’t be able to come to the class?” was a question raised by Shah which the college failed to answer,” said Raushan, citing the judgement.
She said Kantharia then suggested she move court. “We met senior lawyer V P Patil, who took up my case for free. During the hearing I would go to the court with my relatives. Justice Shah, after hearing my petition and seeing me visiting the court, directed the college authorities to admit me,” said Raushan.

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