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Meet Pratyaya Amrit, the Inspiring IAS Officer Who Has Placed Bihar Firmly on the Road to Success ! A bly guided by its power secretary Pratyaya Amrit, Bihar has just completed its target of 100% electrification of willing households in the state. This will be almost two months ahead of the national deadline of December 31, 2018, fixed by the Centre for completing the target under the Saubhagya scheme. T he walls were dank, the chairs broken and the curtains tattered. By no stretch of imagination did the place look like it was the office of a major state corporation about to embark on the onerous responsibility of creating a bridge infrastructure in one of the poorest states in the country. “It did not look like an office at all. I did not know where to begin,’’  Pratyaya  Amrit  recalls." When the reticent IAS officer took over as Managing Director (MD) in 2006, the turnover of the  Bihar   Rajya   Pul Nirman  Nigam ...

The Man Who Carved A Road Through The Mountain So His People Could Reach A Doctor In Time  Dashrath Manjhi T his is the story of an ordinary man. He was an outcast, a landless labourer who had to trek across an entire mountain every day, just to reach the farm that he worked on. It was a treacherous trek, and led to accidents often. His people needed help, there were lives at stake every day. He decided, if no one would help his people, he would. Then, without pausing for a thought, he went ahead and did just that with his bare hands. This is the story of Dashrath Manjhi: the man who moved a mountain, so that his people could reach a doctor in time.              Dashrath Manjhi – the man who moved a mountain THE COMMUNITY OF GEHLOUR It was 1960. Landless laborers, the Musahars, lived amid rocky terrain in the remote Atri block of Gaya, Bihar, in northern India. In the community of Gehlour, they were regarde...

The 73-Year Old Librarian Who Has Been Donating Every Rupee He Earned To The Poor For 30 Years ! ◆ Palam Kalyanasundaram K alyanasundaram has given a whole new definition to the word ‘charity’. He never married and took up odd part-time jobs to make ends meet as he donated every single rupee he ever earned as a librarian – even his pension of Rs.10 lakhs and award of Rs.30 crores! Read more to know the inspiring tale of the exceptional contributions made by a simple man. H ow often do we take out money from our pocket to give to someone who is needy? Would you help if someone you didn’t know came to you and asked for financial aid? Maybe not, or at least you might think twice before giving away even a hundred rupees note. We sometimes go to an NGO and donate some money or stuff and feel content that we have done our share of good deeds. We feel good about ourselves and move on with our lives. But there are a few people, very few, who literally dedicate their lives...

This IAS Officer Would Have Been Repairing Cycles If Not for the Kindness of Strangers ! This is the journey of a boy who lost his father at a young age and decided to stop his education. But the generosity of some people around him eventually led to his becoming an IAS officer. V arun Baranwal a young boy from the small town of Boisar in Palghar district of Maharashtra, always dreamt of becoming a doctor. His father, who ran a cycle repair shop, worked hard to give a good life to Varun and his sister. But in March 2006, just four days after Varun’s 10 th  Board exams, his father had a heart attack and passed away. Though the cycle repair shop had been doing well, the hospital bills left Varun’s family in huge debt. His older sister was a teacher but her salary and tuitions were not enough to pay off the loans and fulfil the family’s daily needs as well. So Varun had to make the hard decision of stopping his own education and carrying on his father’s business. He s...

How a Class-XII dropout became IAS officer after 19 years ! Every year, lakhs of students appear for the  Union Public Service Commission   civil services  examination, having prepared extensively to become IAS officers. However, only a few hundred get to achieve their dreams. Ranipet Sub-Collector K. Elambahavath recalls being one of those applicants. Frustrated about being turned away at government offices, Elambahavath single-mindedly toiled for 19 years and eventually, became an IAS officer. Elambahavath dropped out of school after his father's death.  Elambahavath was a regular class 12th student when in 1997, life took a different turn. His father, a village administrative officer, passed away.  Elambahavath, born in 1982 in Cholagangudikkadu (Tamil Nadu), quit stuides due to financial constraints and assisted his mother in farming. BACKSTORY :- He applied for government jobs but failed repeatedly.  Elambahavath told...