{"id":1489,"date":"2011-09-08T15:05:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T15:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2011-09-08T15:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T15:05:20","slug":"small-town-boys-dream-takes-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2011\/09\/small-town-boys-dream-takes-wings.html","title":{"rendered":"Small town boy&#8217;s dream takes wings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">T<\/span>he dream of a poor, determined and hardworking young man from a small town of Daund in Pune district has \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctaken wings\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<br \/>\nGirish Kamble (20), son of a small shoe shop owner, stood second in the all-India ranking in the reserved category in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entrance exam of premier flight training institute, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA), in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh.<br \/>\nIGRUA, managed by the union ministry of civil aviation, is the only institute imparting flight training in South Asia. Kamble would be leaving for Rae Bareli next month for the 15-month commercial pilot licence (CPL) training.<br \/>\nThe young man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father, Sunil, earns around Rs10,000-Rs15,000 per month selling shoes at his small shop in Daund, while his mother, Jayshree, is a teacher at a zilla parishad primary school.<br \/>\nGirish said the tough examination and stringent selection process included written test, aptitude test and interview.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now my immediate hurdle is to garner Rs26 lakh, required for course fees,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, adding that Rs7,000 a month is also needed for hostel accommodation and food. His relatives are coming forward with what little they can lend as financial support.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\">07\/09\/11 Rajesh Rao<\/span>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/mumbai\/report_small-town-boy-s-dream-takes-wings_1584508\" target=\"_blank\">Daily News and Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dream of a poor, determined and hardworking young man from a small town of Daund in Pune district has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}