An Indian man whose wife died when medical attention could not reach her, carved a 360 feet long path through a mountain to cut the time to allow medical assistance arrives at his village to prevent similar tragedy happens in his village again. It took him 22 years to “move” the mountain and shorter the journey or distance to the nearest town from 75km to 1km.
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Dashrath Manjhi (1934 – August 17, 2007) was born into a poor labourer family in Galour village near Gaya in Bihar, India. He is also known as Mountain Man. Manjhi’s wife, Falguni Devi, died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a doctor was 70 kilometres (43 mi) away from their village in Bihar, India.
Manjhi did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he carved a path 360-foot-long (110 m) through-cut, 25-foot-deep (7.6 m) in places and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) to form a road through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km, bringing him national acclaim. He died on August 17, 2007. He was given a state funeral by the Government of Bihar.
The moral of this incident: there is nothing impossible in this world even to move amountain by yourself…
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