Dashrath Manjhi Wiki, Age, Wife, Death, Family, Biography & More – WikiBio
Dashrath Das Manjhi was a laborer who loved his wife very much. He had carved a path through a hill in the village alone, because his wife had died because of delays in medical treatment due to the hill.
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Dashrath Manjhi was born on January 14, 1929, into the Musahar family (Age: 78 when he died in 2007) in Grauer Village, Gaya District, Bihar, British India. His family was very poor and belonged to a very low caste (Scheduled Caste) in the area. His family was often tortured by the upper classes (muxia or Pradhan) village.
family
Information about his parents is not available. His wife, Falguni Devi, fell from a mountain and died. He has a son, Bhagirath Manjhi, and a daughter. He has a brother.
story
When he returned to the village after seven years in Dhanbad, he fell in love with Falguni Devi, who turned out to be his wife. Falguni Devi’s father refused to send his daughter to Dashrath Manjhi because he did not have a job. They both eloped and started a new family life. Until 1960, his wife had two children. One day, when she was delivering food to her husband, she fell off the mountain and was seriously injured. Dashrath Manjhi took her to a hospital in a nearby town outside the mountain. But it was too late and she died due to the lack of timely medication. He then made up his mind to bring down the mountain and create a passage that would connect the people of the village with the nearby town and hospital so that others would not suffer from the problem again.
Initially, people made fun of him and called him a lunatic. Later, however, someone came out to ask for his help. One of them was Shivu Mishtri, who gave Manjhi, a hammer and a chisel.
Seeking help from the government, he traveled to Delhi to meet Mrs. Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, but was thrown off the train for not having a ticket. Even so, he had to travel more than 1,000 kilometers to reach Delhi. It took 22 years (from 1960 to 1982) to make a road up the mountain, and finally a road that was 360 feet long, 30 feet high and 25 feet wide came out, and Dashrath Manjhi rose to fame. Thanks to his efforts, the distance between the two blocks of Atri and Wazirganj in Gaya district was shortened from 55 km to 15 km.
die
He died on 17 August 2007 at AIIMS Hospital in New Delhi at the age of 78 due to gallbladder cancer. After his death, the Bihar government held a state funeral for him.
fact
- In 2006, the Bihar government proposed to name him the Padma Shree Award in the category of social services.
- Manjhi wants the road (Pucca) paved for him by the government but he does not see that in his life. After his death in 2007, the government designated it as pucca.
- In 2014, the first show of the TV show Satyameva Jayate, hosted by Amir Khan, was dedicated to Dashrath Manjhi. Aamir Khan met Bhagirath Manjhi (Dashrath Manjhi’s son) and his wife Basanti Devi and promised to help the Manjhi family financially. Later, however, Basanti Devi died due to lack of proper treatment.
- On the death of his wife, Bajirat Manji said that if Aamir Khan fulfilled his promise, his wife would not die.
- In 2015, his biopic Manjhi – The Mountain Man was released, directed by Ketan Mehta, with Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Dashrath Manjhi and Radhika Apte as Falguni Devi.
- Film director Ketan Mehta had promised that he would give 2% of the film’s earnings to Dashrath Manjhi’s family, but the family received only Rs 150,000 in two installments.
- There is a gate named after him on the trail he carved into the mountain in the last century. A hospital was also named after him.
- In 2017, the statue of Dashrath Manjhi was also unveiled by CM Nitish Kumar.
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