Hailing from Purbapara near Kalna Gate in the Burdwan district, Suparna lives with her family in a small thatched one-room house on a plot of Railway land. Scoring 615 marks in Madhyamik Examination this year, Suparna has become the pride of her school Ichhamati Bibekananda Balika Vidyalaya. Her father, a local tea vendor, never hesitated to spend his last penny on the education of his daughter education. Suparna’s mother is a homemaker. IVEST is happy to extend a scholarship to Suparna who wants to pursue higher studies in Geography and become a teacher.