Home: Japhe, Dolakha, Janakpur

Education: Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication , Kantipur Engineering College

Until this year, there was no one in my family who had officially graduated with a university degree. I am the first in the family. My parents’ dream of educating me has always been a push factor for me to complete university education. Although I was a considered an average student, I have been engaged in various extracurricular activities and managed to win the best speaker award in a debate competition and have also bagged few trophies in volleyball competitions.

Being raised in remote northern part of the country, Dolakha was pleasing but at the same time risky. During the devastating 2015 earthquake, I lost my house. My mom was severely injured in the earthquake. We had to bring her to Kathmandu for proper medical care. While I was running to the army camp to call for a helicopter, I realised what living in the rural part of the country feels like. I then promised myself that I would do something worthy to support people who are a similar situation as ours.

With my degree in engineering, I want to make all the students in the village aware about the latest technologies and introduce them to the outer world so that it will help them in their future paths. In the next five years, I see myself as a government official who is working for the betterment of the communities like mine that suffer in pain much more than the cities, when troubles do hit them, just because they are lacking basic infrastructure.