13/07/2020
Meet,
Srikanth Bolla, He was born blind.
He cleared the class X state board exams with over 90 per cent marks. But the board said he could only take Arts subjects after that. He was denied admission to the science stream in class XI because of his disability.
Having been denied the opportunity, He decided to fight for it. He sued the government and fought for six months. In the end, He got a government order that said I could take the science subjects but at his âown riskâ. He worked hard and managed to secure 98 per cent in the XII board exams.
Then he applied for and other good engineering colleges but did not get any hall ticket in India. He then applied to universities in and got into the top four. Then he went on to become the first international blind student to be admitted to the prestigious .
He then came back to India to bring change here.
He founded . Its annual turn over is more than 80 crore rupees. He did not become a burden to anyone but he funded about 3000 students in attaining free education and provided livelihood to hundreds of people with disabilities through his company.
