Child prodigy: 4-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh gets admission to Class 9

A four-year-old girl from Lucknow has been officially given admission in a class 9 after getting consent from the Uttar Pradesh education department.

According to Times of India, Ananya Verma, who was born on December 1, 2011, will break her sister's record if she clears the class 10 exam. Ananya's sister Sushma had cleared her class 10 exam in 2007 when she was over 7-years-old.

Ananya is a student of St Meera's Inter College, the same school her sister studied in. "Ananya was so talented that none of us could stop her taking admission in class 9. The board permits home education only till class 8. So, now that she speaks fluent Hindi and reads class 9 books with ease, she deserves the admission," District inspector of schools Umesh Tripathi told the daily.

Ananya's mother Chaya Devi can't read or write while father Tej Bahadur is an assistant supervisor (sanitation) at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University.