Dashrath Manjhi (Mountain Man)
This is inspiring real story of Dashrath Manjhi who decided to cut the mountain and made road to paassay villagers to facilitate Medical, hospital and other emergency services.
He started to break mountain with chhisel, hammer and other normal instruments and continued 22 years hard work to make road.
“When will not break, will not quit”
“जब तक तोड़ेंगे नहीं तब तक छोड़ेंगे नहीं “।
Dashrath Manjhi (14 January 1934– 17 August 2007, also known as Mountain Man, was a laborer in Gehlaur village, near Gaya in Bihar, India. When his wife died in 1959 due to injury caused by falling from a mountain, he decided to carve a path of 110 m long (360 ft), 9.1 m (30 ft) wide and 7.7 m (25 ft) deep through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel.After 22 years of work, Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya town from 55 km to 15 km.He travelled to New Delhi to get recognition of his work and was rewarded by then Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar. In 2016, Indian Post issued a postage stamp featuring him.
