Updated: Apr 13, 2021, 07:50 AM IST
While there are no shortcuts to success, Handwork, patience and perseverance certainly pave the path to success. This is the story of Ranjith Ramachandran, a night watchman-turned-assistant professor at IIM Ranchi. His struggle to get a good education and the fight to sustain himself to see his dream getting realised is being regarded as an inspiration to society and he has turned a role model for many.
Ranjith lived in a dilapidated single-room mud hut and worked as a night watchman for survival. His father is a tailor and his mother a daily wage earner under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
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In 2011,
when his nephew Deepak Sharma sought career advice, Ramniwas (who goes by one name), a former production line worker at Maruti Suzuki’s manufacturing plant in Manesar, Haryana, asked him to enrol for a diploma course in one of Haryana’s polytechnic institutes.
“Technical line mein bohot scope hai [There are many opportunities for anyone with a technical education]
,” he told the 16-year-old
.
Sharma had just completed high school that year, in Guhna, an agricultural village in Haryana’s Kaithal district, about 200-km from Manesar, an industrial hub that is part of the larger National Capital Region of Delhi.
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