ROORKEE: Namita Kalra , the daughter of a TV mechanic in Roorkee , has scripted a success story after she topped the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2018 in Computer Science Engineering. The 26-year-old did not let her humble background come into the way of her dreams and worked for three years at a private company to fund her coaching.Today, her hard work has paid off, said Kalra even as she greeted yet another of the well-wishers who have been queuing outside her house in Satti Mohalla since the results were declared on March 16. “I hope to join IIT-Bombay so I can pursue a career in I-T research,” Namita told TOI on Sunday.Namita completed her BTech in computer science engineering from the National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand in Srinagar. After earning her degree, she worked in a private company in Ludhiana for three years so she could save up for coaching classes.“I had appeared for GATE during the final year of college as well. That is when I realized that I needed systematic preparation and coaching for GATE. But we were a family of modest means and my father, Devendra Kalra, was the sole breadwinner. So I took up a job at a private company. I left my job last year and started preparing for the engineering exam,” she said.

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