A Village of IITians, Patwatoli is a locality in the Manpur block of the Gaya district

A village with as many as 300 IITians popularly known as the “Village of IITians” has brought laurels to Bihar. This year too, as many as 18 students from this impoverished village cracked the prestigious IIT-JEE. Traditionally known for its weavers but now known for having a disproportionately high number of youths studying at Indian Institutes of Technology, National Institutes of Technology, with at least 300 of the 1,000 households in the locality having at least one engineer.

Prem Narayan Patwa, who heads this weaving community of 1,000 households, says they have sent 300 students to IITs; 30 families from here now live in the US. “One family has seven IITians. If you count all our boys and girls in engineering colleges, the number will be 800,’’ he says to IndianExpress.

The success is being attributed to the IITians who spend their vacations at their native village and guide the IIT aspirants, apart from lending monetary support. “In case of any problems, we also get in touch with our seniors on WhatsApp group or on Facebook and seek their helps,” said Sumit Kumar who topped in his locality last year. The village also formed a study circle called “Nav Prayas” to help the aspirants with study materials, notes and money. “Once we have cleared the IIT test, we too have to follow the same routine and help the juniors,” added Kumar.

The declining power loom business too has forced the young generation to concentrate their energy on education and this is bearing fruits too. This can be gauged form the fact that the number of students clearing the IIT is increasing with each passing year.

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