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15-year-old works off school fee, aims for IIT
This 15-year-old preparing for SSC final examination will put to shame thousands of unemployed graduates and professionals who still seek pocket money from their parents.
Visakhapatnam: This 15-year-old preparing for SSC final examination will put to shame thousands of unemployed graduates and professionals who still seek pocket money from their parents.
Shy looking and yet determined to achieve something meaningful in life Munagapaka Ganesh moved to city two years ago from Kothapeta in Chodavaram mandal, along with his family members, when his father M Ramana, a washerman by profession, found living tough in the village.
Ramana found a job as a watchman in an apartment located in posh East Point Colony for a meagre salary of Rs 4,000 a month. Ganesh realised his father is leading a hard life with the small salary supporting his two brothers and a sister. His mother Ramanamma passed away when he was six-year-old.
After spending many sleepless nights, he thought of earning to support his family and his education. But there was no specified job for his age which would not interrupt his school timings. While roaming around the locality, he found many cars were dust ridden and he thought the owners might pay him some money for cleaning them. His initial approach was a success and the owners agreed to pay him Rs 300 for big and luxury cars and Rs 200 for small cars. He now cleans 15 cars small and big earning Rs 4.500 per month.
Ganesh starts cleaning them from 5.30 am onwards and returns home an hour later for resuming his home work. He never takes weekly off or bunks work on one pretext or the other. He cleaned cars on all the festivals when many workers bunked work after collecting festival mamool.
After earning Rs 4,500 a month, Ganesh pays his father Rs 3,500 and saves the remaining amount. Asked what was he going to do with the savings, Ganesh said all the savings would be spent for corporate college fee for Intermediate course which he would be joining in another two months and for coaching for IIT.
"My aim is to get into IIT and become an engineering professional, which would help me in serving the society and my family members,’’ Ganesh said. He says his elder brother who dropped out of school after passing 9th standard told him about the greatness in studying IIT. When his progress card was checked, it was found Ganesh achieved 90 percent marks in mathematics and 80 per cent in other subjects, a sure indication that this boy would stick to academics for a long time in his life.
