From Kashmir to Kargil: Six girls qualify for IIT as RISE Institute records strong JEE Advanced result

Srinagar: RISE Institute, Srinagar’s main teaching centre for JEE and NEET preparation, has introduced 15 IIT alternatives in JEE Advanced 2026, including one other milestone to its unbroken legacy as the one institute in Kashmir to have despatched college students to the IITs each single 12 months since its founding in 2012.

The standout story of this 12 months’s result is the collection of six girls from Jammu & Kashmir — Soliha, Hyfa, Nuha, and Ayesha from Kashmir, and Isma and Parveen from Kargil, Ladakh. Final 12 months, three girls qualifying for IIT from Kashmir was an achievement so uncommon it made nationwide headlines, drew a congratulatory tweet from the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, and was lined by The Hindu and The Indian Specific. This 12 months, RISE has doubled that quantity.

Significantly noteworthy are the 2 alternatives from Kargil — Isma and Parveen — from a area that has traditionally had restricted entry to structured IIT teaching. For Kargil, which sits on the fringe of Ladakh and has lengthy been underserved by way of aggressive examination preparation, these alternatives signify greater than particular person achievement. They sign that the aspiration and expertise to attain India’s most prestigious engineering establishments exists far past the metros, and that the correct steerage can unlock it.

The broader significance of six girls cracking IIT from Jammu & Kashmir can’t be overstated. In a area the place societal pressures, restricted function fashions, and geographical obstacles have traditionally made it tough for girls to pursue aggressive engineering schooling, this result challenges each a kind of narratives. Every identify on this checklist — Soliha, Hyfa, Nuha, Ayesha, Isma, Parveen — turns into a reference level for the following woman in Kashmir or Kargil who dares to think about an IIT.

RISE is the one institute in Kashmir to have maintained an unbroken streak of IIT alternatives 12 months after 12 months. With over 1,000 cumulative IIT and NIT alternatives since its inception, the institute has quietly constructed a monitor document that few teaching centres anyplace within the nation can match on a per-student foundation. Its college students have gone on to research at IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, AIIMS, and even internationally at Princeton College and the College of Pennsylvania.

RISE was co-founded by Mubeen Masudi, an alumnus of IIT Bombay, and Salman Shahid and Imbesat Ahmad, each alumni of IIT Kharagpur. The three founders left behind careers elsewhere to spend money on the academic way forward for Kashmir — a call that has since reworked the educational trajectories of tons of of scholars from the Valley and past. Co-founder Salman Shahid, who hails from Delhi, was honoured with the celebrated Younger Alumni Achiever Award by IIT Kharagpur in recognition of his contribution to schooling in Kashmir by way of RISE.

The work of RISE has not gone unnoticed. The institute has been lined by main nationwide and worldwide media homes together with BBC, The Hindu, and The Indian Specific, reflecting the broader recognition of what’s being constructed within the Kashmir Valley. Every year’s result has drawn contemporary consideration to the story of a area rewriting its personal instructional narrative, one IIT seat at a time.

“Kashmir has at all times had good minds. What it wanted was the correct setting and the idea that these desires had been achievable. At this time’s result — 15 IITs, six girls, two from Kargil — is proof that whenever you spend money on college students with sincerity, they surpass each expectation. We’re immensely happy with every considered one of them, and we’re simply getting began.” — Mubeen Masudi, Co-founder, RISE Institute (IIT Bombay)

“When Soliha, Hyfa, Nuha, Ayesha, Isma, and Parveen cracked IIT, they did not simply safe a seat at one of many world’s best establishments — they informed each younger woman in Kashmir and Kargil that the door is open for her too. That’s what strikes us probably the most. The numbers matter, however these six names are a motion.” — Salman Shahid, Co-founder, RISE Institute (IIT Kharagpur)

As JEE Advanced 2026 outcomes mark one other chapter in RISE’s story, the institute stays targeted on what it has at all times believed: that each pupil in Kashmir, no matter background or geography, deserves entry to the type of preparation that provides them a real shot at one of the best establishments on the planet. This 12 months’s result is proof that the mission is working.