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group of young men from Bihar published a book
‘Bihar ka Gaurav’ that has a large number of the
great sons of Bihar. The book started with an
essay on Dashrath Manjhi.
Dashrath Manjhi suffering septicemia or blood
poisoning died at 4.30pm on Friday at the All
India Institute of Medical Sciences. As reported
in TOI, Dashrath had said, “When I became chief
minister of Bihar for one day on July 24, 2006,
Nitish Kumar asked me what my wishes were. I
asked for my road to be made pukka. I also
wished a hospital to be built beside this road,
along the Gehlor Ghat, for my people. Both are
almost ready. I will inaugurate it as soon as I
am out of hospital.” Unfortunately Manjhi
couldn’t inaugurate that himself.
Manjhi single-handedly carved out a
360-feet-long, 25-feet high and 30-feet-wide
road by cutting a mountain for 22 years. But
Manjhi was these days battling his incurable
cancer. Manjhi, the more popularly known as
‘sadhu baba’ was by no means a super hero. As
the story goes “In 1967, his wife Phaguni Devi
was crossing the mountain carrying his lunch,
when she slipped and hurt herself. Agonised,
Manjhi decided overnight to create a metal road
through the hill. Armed with a hammer and
chisel, he didn’t stop for 22 years. Today the
road is used by 1,000 people everyday, as it has
reduced the distance between Atri and Vazirganj
from 50 km to 8 km.”
I wish Nitish Kumar got built a model school in
his name in his village, and the pass created by
him is named Dashrath Manjhi.
Let me express my sincerest condolence for this
ordinary person. I wish the young men of the
state emulated his single-mindedness for a
cause.
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