Home: Tulsipur, Dang, Rapti

Education: Bachelor of Science - Agriculture, Dolphin (PG) Institute of Bio Medical and Natural Science H.N.B. Garhwal Central University, India

I loved playing games, watching cartoons and reading story books as a kid. I used to get all my homework done but wasn’t good at studying. One day, a teacher asked me a question which I couldn’t answer. Then she compared my studies with my sister’s and said that I was nothing like her. I started to study her subject seriously to prove her wrong but I realized that studying wasn’t that hard after all. The same year I scored 78% in the second terminal exam and it really hiked my confidence. When SLC was just around the corner, my father passed away. It left me emotionally and mentally traumatized but I didn’t give up studying. Earlier, whenever I scored good, I used to run up to him to show my paper and he used to compliment me. I could see that pride on his face. I thought I could still make him happy by studying hard and scoring well although he was no longer with us. My mother is a strong independent woman. She looks after the technical institute in Dang which my father had founded. After his demise, she promised that she won’t let us feel his absence and she has kept her promise wisely. During this tragedy, there were also teachers who helped me with the classes I couldn’t attend. Some of them would tutor me after school time so that I could cover the chapters I missed.. Good education teaches you the basics of civilization. It improves your problem-solving capacity. It guides you to see various perspectives and helps you think rationally. The way I behave, the way I think and the way I act; good education has played a vital role in all of it, in shaping who I am today.