Question

some inspirational stories

Answer 1

Dashrath Manjhi (1934 - 2007) was born into a poor laborer family in Gahlour village  near Gaya in Bihar, India. He is also known as Mountain Man. Dashrath  Manjhi's wife, Falguni Devi, died due to lack of medical treatment  because the nearest town with a doctor was 70 kilometers (43 mi) away  from their village in Bihar, India.

Dashrath did not want anyone  else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he carved a 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  80 km to 13 km, bringing him national acclaim.