Overcoming several hurdles, a 17-year-old boy scored 91.7 per cent in his Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 examinations. The student, identified as Parmeshwar, used to live with 8 other people crammed in 2 rooms at their tightly-packed home in Delhi's Tigri slum.

Since class 10, Parmeshwar used to work in order to support his studies. The 17-year-old student used to wash cars at Khanpur for a living and made Rs 3,000 a month, which he used to pay for his uniform and books.