BANGALORE: The youngest post graduate students of the country, fifteen year old Sushma Verma is all set to pursue her research program in environmental microbiology at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU), Lucknow.  This June, Sushma completed her MSc course from the same college and also topped in her batch.

In the entrance exam for research studies, Sushma secured the seventh position. “There are three seats vacant in the general category and one in the reserved category. I think special provision will be made for her”, comments Naveen Kumar, HOD, department of environmental microbiology, BBAU.

BBAU vice chancellor Prof R C Sobti, in an interview with TOI told, “We must encourage her talent. We will give admission to her in the special category. We will give her a hostel [seat] and scholarship also."
This young girl expressed her joy in words and said, "I was attracted to this field when we had to do fieldwork in the fourth semester, or when we would have to do lab work such as isolate Rhizobium bacteria in roots of leguminous plants."

Her father, Tej Bahadur, is a assistant supervisor (sanitation) at BBAU and her mother is a house wife.

Sushma completed her graduation from Lucknow University at the age of 13. She was rewarded as the "youngest student" to pass Class X when she was 7, by the 'Limca Book of Records'. Sushma was enrolled for class ten at the age of 5, in St Meera's Inter-College, Lucknow.

Sushma’s brother Shailendra is also an epic in child prodigy. He completed his BCA at the age of 14. Currently, he works in Bengaluru and is also pursuing his MCA.

About her youngest sister, Ananya, "She can also read and recite poems in Hindi and English," Sushma comments.”

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