Meerut, Sept. 15, 2020: Sanju Rani Verma ran away from to avoid marriage and to follow her dream.
Seven years later, the 28-year-old woman returned home in Meerut, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, after cracking the tough Public Service Commission (PSC) examination to become a commercial tax officer
After Verma lost her mother during her masters course in the Delhi University, her family pressed her to leave studies mid-way and get married. Born in a family, where women’s education isn’t encouraged, Verma had to fight to realize her ambition.
A graduate from Meerut’s RG Degree College, she found herself at a crossroad, unable to make her family understand the perspective of building her own career and not settle down.
Verma said that in 2013 she had to leave her study too and having no financial support, she rented a small apartment where she started taking private tuition classes. She was also offered part-time teaching jobs in private institutions and while managing all of these, she continued with her preparations for PSC exam.
And all of it paid off when Verma cleared the Uttar Pradesh Public Services Commission exam of 2018. The results were announced in the first week of September.
Verma is not satisfied yet. Her eyes are fixed on the civil service exam conducted by the Union Public Services Commission and become a divisional magistrate.
Nevertheless, the 35-year-old still wishes to support her family financially and hopes that the ones, who discouraged a daughter’s choice of leading a life by herself, would now respect her as she rises to become an officer.
Verams’s teacher from Meerut believes that her success is a defeat of the society’s conditioning, where daughters should always be under the control of sons and men.
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