right since his ssc days gangadhar wanted to become a computer engineer interestingly no textbooks are available for the subject and gangadhar had to study with the help of assorted books donated by wellwishers and teachersnow i realise that becoming a computer engineer is beyond my means the family barely manages to make both ends meet but this did not dull gangadhars sprits the board thought the school would inform me and the school authorities thought the board must have told me about my success he explains no sweets and bouquets greeted gangadhar on his feat nor did a crowd of relatives turn up to congratulate him he did not join any fancy coaching class but studied at home for two hours a day after school the story was no different when he topped the merit list in the ssc exams from night school category with 72 per cent marks gangadhars father nandu is a tailor while his mother vijaya makes bidis pune he lives in a 10x10 tin shed in a slum in ghorpade peth the only question on his mind today is how to pursue further studies despite financial problemsi am also disappointed about the fact that i missed the top position by 12 marks and the second by just four marks he states the pmcs ghorpade peth garden was his study room during ssc as well as hsc exams yet 18yearold gangadhar botla a student of raja dhanraj girji high school and junior college managed to grab the third spot in the hsc merit list for minimum competencybased vocation course mcvc securing 8433 per cent marks he opted for the computer technique subject in hsc and scored 98100 97100 and 95100 marks in it i will try to become a chartered accountant instead he told tnn on thursday adding that it was only because of the financial help extended by the local ganesh mandal manoj patel of bombay vishnu bidi works and two of his teachers that he could study up to hscgangadhar studied in municipal schools before joining the poona night school for ssc as he had to help his father stitch clothes during daytime he does a job to support his family of six and also helps out his parents in household chores if this was not enough a communication gap between the school authorities and the maharashtra state board for secondary and higher secondary education deprived him of celebrations as he did not know about his feat till 3 pm on wednesday