Patwa Toli is a non-descript locality under the Manpur

Manpur

Manpur is a block in Gaya District, India. The town is famous for hand looms and railway sleeper factory. Partly situated on the banks of falgu river,a seasonal stream. It is a country side town where the people from the remote villages do their shopping. The main market is often called as Manpur...

 block of the Gayadistrict

Gaya District

Gaya is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India. The district is having a common boundary with the Jharkhand state in the south. Gaya city is its largest city and the district headquarters.-History:...

. However, youths from this area have made their home famous by cracking the IIT-JEE regularly since 1999. The locality has around 1,000 households, most of them patwas (weavers). Of them at least 200 families have at least one engineer. Around 10 families have two IITians.

A hub of IITians

Patwa Toli’s tryst with the IITs began in 1996, when Jitendra Kumar became the first person from the area to qualify for the IITs. His success inspired others and from 1999 onwards 58 students have made it to the tech hubs.