Twenty three year (23) old Shrikanth Bolla has as of now accomplished what a great many people of his age will take atleast years to accomplish. That as well, in spite of being visually impaired.
He confronted segregation because of his handicap at an early stage in life. After he was conceived blind, his guardians were exhorted by the villagers in Sitaramapuram in Andhra Pradesh to give him a chance to bite the dust.
At school as well, he was barred from games and pushed to sit in the last seat far from the entire class. That however did little to discourage Shrikanth to exceed expectations in studies and garnish in Class 10 Board exams in his cool.
At the middle level, Shrikanth needed to study science however he got an inconsiderate stun when the Andhra Pradesh Education Board declined to concede him consent, expressing that Arts was the main stream the visually impaired could decide on.
Not one to surrender, he documented a case and following a six-month long hold up, the Board consented to give him a chance to seek after Science. Toward the end of two years, Shrikanth topped Class 12, securing 98%.
The separation declined to stop. Next up was IIT. Shrikanth needed to study designing at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology yet he was denied a concede card to the IIT selection test. That is when Shrikanth chose, "If IIT doesn't need me, I don't need IIT either!"
He then continue to apply to schools in the United States for an undergrad program and wound up securing confirmation in four universities MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie Mellon. He in the long run picked MIT, turning into the school's first global visually impaired understudy.
In the wake of moving on from MIT, Srikanth felt the need to take care of the absence of chances for the impaired in India. Accordingly, he surrendered lucrative corporate open doors in America, he came back to India and began Samanvai, a non-benefit association situated in Hyderabad with the plan to give 'individualized, need-based and objective arranged bolster administrations to understudies with numerous incapacities.' Additionally, he likewise gave instructional exercise administrations to such understudies by advancing Braille education and a printing press/library. He wound up coaching and supporting more than 3,000 Students.
Shrikanth wasn't done just yet. At that point in 2012, he chose to take up the issue of employability of the debilitated, and in this way began Bollant Industries Pvt. Ltd, which gives occupation chances to the physically tested. The organization utilizes handicapped and uneducated individuals to make eco-accommodating dispensable bundling items.
Today, Bollant utilizes more than 150 crippled people and has five assembling units. Its yearly deals have effectively crossed Rs. 70 million and the organization is worth Rs 50 crore. Shrikanth is the living case of the way that ability, diligent work and determination can get you past any troubles.
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