The burning desire of an 18-year-old Jyoti for higher education seemed like a distant dream.Literally. The nearest college was 20 unreachable kilometres away from her remote Devipur village in Haryana and in the absence of buses, there was simply no way she could get there. Her parents said a clear NO to the prospect of her commuting 20 km to college daily through unsafe transportation. Get married instead, they told her, in no uncertain terms.