Ranchi, Aug. 31: Chief minister Raghubar Das today handed 20-year old tribal girl Anima Minz the biggest gift of her life, money to facilitate her MBBS admission to Grant Medical College in Mumbai, becoming, as the song goes, the wind beneath her wings.

The chief minister, who had taken note of her plight following today's report published in The Telegraph (Don't let cash crunch crush her dreams) and a few other dailies, called the girl along with her mentor Manoj Kumar to Project Building at noon today to personally hand her a cheque of Rs 2 lakh.

"Go, become a doctor and serve the people of this state," Das told the awestruck girl.

Hailing from remote Champa village, Mahuadanr in rebel-hit Latehar, Anima, who has polio, cracked the All India PMT Exam (NEET 2016) to score an all-India 8th rank in the ST category, getting a seat in Grant Medical College on August 28. But she was worried about arranging Rs 65,000 as admission money (Rs 64,000 as fees along with a demand draft of Rs 1,100) by September 3.

The fifth of six siblings with daily wager parents, Anima hadn't thought her struggle for admission would end so easily.

"It's a great day for me, a biggest gift of my life. I am happy and now firmly believe that where there is a will, there will be a way out. I will certainly be a doctor and serve the people," the girl who battled polio and poverty to study hard and dream of becoming a doctor said after meeting Das.

Tomorrow, Anima will leave for Mumbai, said her mentor Manoj Kumar, head of Super 30, a Ranchi-based institute run by social outfit Youth Power of India, that provided her with free coaching and accommodation for two years.

Kumar said the chief minister praised their efforts to provide free medical coaching to BPL students and directed social welfare department secretary Rajiv Arun Ekka to allot them permanent space.

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