Dashrath Das Manjhi is a worker who loves his wife very much. He carved a path himself on a hill in the village because his wife died after delaying medical treatment due to that hill.
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Dashrath Manjhi was born on January 14, 1929, in a Musahar family in Gelaur village, Gaya district, Bihar, British India (age: 78, died in 2007) . His family was very poor and belonged to a very low caste (Scheduled Caste) in the area. His family is often tortured by the upper class (Mukhiya or Pradhan) of the village.
family
Information about his parents is unclear. His wife Falguni Devi died after falling from a mountain. He has a son Bhagirath Manjhi and a daughter. He has a brother.
Bhagirath Manjhi, son of Dashrath Manjhi
story
When he returned to his village after working in Dhanbad for seven years, he fell in love with Falguni Devi and surprisingly, she turned out to be his wife. Falguni Devi’s father refused to send his daughter to Dashrath Manjhi as he was unemployed. They both eloped and started a new family life. Until 1960, his wife gave birth to two children. One day, while delivering food to her husband, she fell down the mountain and was seriously injured. Dashrath Manjhi took her to a hospital in a nearby town outside the mountains. But it was too late, she died due to lack of timely medication. He then made up his mind to knock down the mountain and create a road through it to connect people in the village with nearby towns and hospitals so that no one would suffer from this problem again.
At first, people made fun of him and called him crazy. However, later, some people came forward to ask him for help. One of them was Shivu Mishtri who gave Manjhi a hammer and a chisel.
Shivu Mishtri, helps Dashrath Manjhi
In order to seek help from the government, he went to Delhi to meet the then Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, but was kicked off the train for traveling without a ticket. Even so, he walked more than 1,000 kilometers to reach Delhi. It took 22 years (from 1960 to 1982) to carve a road through the mountain, and finally a road 360 feet long, 30 feet high, and 25 feet wide came into being, and Dashrath Manjhi became famous ever since. Rise up. Due to his efforts, the distance between Atri and Wazirganj, two blocks of Gaya district, was reduced from 55 kilometers to 15 kilometers.
die
He died at the AIIMS Hospital in New Delhi on August 17, 2007 at the age of 78 due to gallbladder cancer. After his death, the Bihar government held a state funeral for him.
Nitish Kumar visits Dashrath Manjhi in hospital
fact
- In 2006, the Government of Bihar nominated him for the Padmashri Award in the social service category.
- Manji wanted the government to pave the road he built (Pucca), but he could not see that in his lifetime. After his death in 2007, the government named it “pucca”.
- When he went to CM House, CM Nitish Kumar generously gave up his seat to Dashrath Manjhi for a while.
Dashrat Manjhi and Nitish Kumar
- In 2014, the first episode of the TV show Satyameva Jayate hosted by Amir Khan was dedicated to Dashrath Manjhi. Aamir Khan met Bhagirath Manjhi (son of Dashrat Manjhi) and his wife Basanti Devi and promised to help the Manjhi family financially. However, Basanti Devi later died due to lack of proper treatment.
- On the death of his wife, Bhagirath Manjhi said that if Aamir Khan had fulfilled his promise, his wife would not have died.
- In 2015, his biopic Manjhi – The Mountain Man was released, directed by Ketan Mehta, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Dashrath Manjhi and Radhika Apte as Falguni Devi.
Dashrat Manjhi biopic
- Film director Ketan Mehta promised to donate 2% of the film’s proceeds to Dashrath Manjhi’s family, but the family received only Rs 1.50 lakh in two installments.
- On December 26, 2016, India Post issued a stamp in his honor.
Dashrat Manjhi postal stamp
- In his memory, an entrance gate is named after him on the path he carved on a hill in the last century. A hospital is also named after him.
Dashrat Manji Deva
- In 2017, Dashrath Manjhi’s statue was also unveiled by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
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