BHUBANESWAR, March 15 -- An Odia girl has received laurels from several quarters for bagging offers from at least five prestigious law schools in the USA to pursue her LLM.

Pragya Samal, daughter of Ajay Samal of Sunapal village in Jajpur district, has received offers from Columbia Law School, Chicago Law School, Michigan Law, Carey Law School and Berkeley Law School in the United States, media reports said.

The law schools have also offered scholarship to Pragya. Berkeley Law School has offered her a scholarship of $ 30,000 and Michigan Law School offered $ 50,000.

Her father Ajay has been working as a cook at the Supreme Court of India since 1996. Now, Ajay is serving at the residence of Justice Augustine G Masih.

Pragya had completed...