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Agonising wait for SSC results tells on Millennium Bismay

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HC allowed the eight-year-old to sit for the examination

He wants to write the exam at an age of six
He is now not interested to study anymore, says his father

CUTTACK: The future of yet another child prodigy is in dark. Wonder kid Millennium Bismay who wanted to become the youngest matriculate of the country is now spending his days in depression and he is in a state of trauma.

Waiting for the publication of his matriculation examination result, the eight-year-old boy is utterly bereft of hope.

It’s not Millennium alone who is crestfallen but his teacher-parents are shattered seeing the plight of their only child who has a tremendous memory power.

Following the State Government’s refusal to allow the boy to sit for the annual school leaving examination, the boy had moved the High Court for its intervention. The HC had allowed the boy to write his papers in the 2007-examination but it (the HC) had restrained the State Board of Secondary Education (BSE) from publishing his results without the leave of the court.

“Although, the results of all other candidates were published on May 29, Bismay’s result was kept withheld.

Because the HC had in its order had said that the boy’s result would not be published without the leave of the court”, said a BSE official. As soon as we get the court order, we would publish his result, said an official of BSE recently.

Long-wait

But the little kid is now very disappointed and sad because of the uncertainties about his future.

“Millennium has now started showing suicidal tendencies and is emotionally very hurt”, says the boy’s father Laxmikanta Behera over phone from Balasore where he is working as a physical training instructor in a school.

The whole experience of creating a record at a tender age has left him traumatized, his father added remorsefully.

“One day he came home from a neighbour’s place and told me that he is no more interested to continue a life which is full of dark predictions, I was shocked and shattered”, Behera said adding that his wife Manorama, a Sanskrit teacher of a Jaleswar High School is also disturbed.

Without any formal education, Millennium wanted to appear the matriculation examinations in 2006 as a six-year-old boy. Despite assurances from none other than the Chief Minister, the boy was not allowed.

In 2007, even the BSE conducted a ‘potential’ test on him in which the boy came out successfully securing 62 percent of marks. But the State Government was not satisfied and refused him to sit for the examination.

HC intervention

It was only with HC intervention, the boy was allowed to sit for the exams.

But the delay in publication of the result has taken a heavy toll on him. He is now not interested to study anymore.

“I am no more interested to study any school books now and I can’t even study the college books either”, Bismay says hoping that the HC order allowing the publication of his result would come soon.

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