A farmer's son from a village where most children struggle to finish school has just become its first doctor. Tripurari Singh Yadav, from Mohanpur in the Pandaul block of Bihar's Madhubani district, has qualified the NEET UG exam in his very first attempt, a feat no one else from his village has managed before him.
A family battling illness and limited means
Tripurari comes from an ordinary household. His father, Vinod Kumar Yadav, is battling cancer and stays home, managing only a little farm work when he can. His mother, Kumari Kiran, works with Jeevika, the Bihar rural livelihoods programme. She says her son has been a bright student since childhood, with never a complaint against him, and that he studied through the tenth and twelfth classes while living in the village itself, always scoring well. The family did not have the resources to give their children an elite education, but Tripurari's maternal uncle stood by him throughout, supporting every part of his schooling. His mother says the family always dreamed that their son would achieve something big, and now that he is set to pursue MBBS, it is a moment of great happiness for them.
Breaking his village's education ceiling
Education levels in Tripurari's village are very low. Most children there find it difficult even to complete the tenth and twelfth standard, and the overall literacy rate is poor. Against that backdrop, Tripurari scored 94.6 percent in his tenth board exam and 80 percent in his twelfth, all while staying in the village, and then cracked NEET on his first attempt, making him the most highly educated young person to come out of the village so far.
Why he chose medicine
Tripurari says he has always had a particular interest in cardiology and has wanted to become a doctor for as long as he can remember. He explains that people in the medical profession are given enormous respect in society, and that along with the title comes an outpouring of blessings from people, which is what drew him to the field in the first place.
Marks dipped slightly after the re-exam
Tripurari's NEET journey had a twist. In the original exam, he had scored an impressive 651 marks. However, when the exam was subsequently held again, his score dropped somewhat, to 570 this time. He says the questions in the re-conducted exam were considerably tougher, with some that felt completely beyond comprehension. The NCERT-based questions were manageable, he says, but many candidates, including him, found the physics and chemistry sections particularly hard to crack.
What comes next: MBBS and counselling
Despite the drop in marks, Tripurari is confident of securing an MBBS seat. For context, candidates with an All India rank up to 30,000 are generally able to get an MBBS seat, and this year, in 2026, the cutoff after the re-exam has come down compared to before. Tripurari expects to get into a government medical college, either through the All India quota or, more easily, through state counselling in his home state.
