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With a desire to excel and reach higher goals

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KORAPUT: “Dare to dream, strive to realise,” it is said. A girl form Mukhibidei village in Semiliguda block of Koraput district seems to be doing just that.

Tuni Muduli, daughter of daily labourer Padlam Muduli, was crestfallen when she had to discontinue her studies after the death of her mother while working in Hyderabad.

Tuni was then a student of Class 5 in the residential school at Balda in Koraput district which was managed by the Tribal Welfare Department.

Her father was alone and Tuni had to return home after the annual examination. To supplement the family income she accompanied her friends from the village to earn a livelihood in a road construction work at Sunabeda.

But the desire to study and excel grew stronger when she saw children going to school while she was working in the township.

The burning desire saw her back at Balda. In the process, she had to incur her father’s ire. She continued with her studies in the hostel attached to the school.

The real change in her life had come when she was selected by UNICEF and the district administration to represent tribal girls of Koraput in the campaign on education at Belgium in 2006. Her adaptability to situations in life, strong understanding of the community and looking for opportunities in each and every turn of life were her special qualities.

Since then she nurtured a desire to pursue a career in medicine.

She passed with flying colours in the high school certificate examination this year.

While her father and other villagers were worried about her future studies, her commitment to pursue a career in medicine moved people.

The management of Junior Science College section of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences at Bhubaneswar decided to admit her in the college.

She is now one among the 3,000 tribal children with a desire to excel in the chosen field. Her father, fellow children and other villagers are happy to hear her from the campus.

In a way, she is an inspiration for other tribal children in the village.

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