The people living in small towns usually have to other places for work and other means. So, if the town is 1 mile away, that means you will have to travel 1 mile to reach. But for those in Gelhour, there was a hindrance of a 300 foot mountain between their town and the closest town, Wazirganj.
Gelhour was a backward place where poor lived and did not have basic things like schools, hospitals or jobs. Therefore, to go to Wazirganj, these people had the only option of walking 45 miles around the mountain and risk their lives climbing over it. The climb was very tough, dangerous and took several hours, but everyone had to go through this in Gelhour.
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Once a man named Dashrath Manjhi was on other side of the mountain working to bring wood for his family, his wife climbed the mountain in evening to deliver food for him. But, she fell from the mountain and hurt herself and the dishes which contained food was also broke. That was the moment when Dashrath decided that enough is enough.
He wondered that it has been so many years people are falling.
Dashrath made a resolve to put an end to this misery. He had to sell 3 goats of his family to buy tools such as hammer, chisel and crowbar and decide to cut the mountain to make a way.
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The people of the town considered this task impossible and thought that he had gone mad. He also had to earn for his family apart from making his dream come true. The people thought is it possible for one man to singlehandedly break a 300 feet tall mountain?
It took him 22 years. But Dashrath did. His day job was to plow the fields of others from 8 am till 1 pm daily. This job was to feed his family. To feed his own dream though, he cut mountain from 4 am to 8am and from 1 pm till late in the evening.
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So, after years and years of steely resolve and hard work, Dashrath achieved his dream to cut the mountain using only his hands and other loose tools. He created a road 30 feet wide and 360 feet across. Now, the place Wazirganj was just 3 miles away for people to go to work and kids to go to school.
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Dashrath passed away in 2007 from Cancer, but he has left behind such a legacy that it inspires everyone who gets to know about his story. Dashrath is not just a hero for his village but the entire humanity.
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