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| A Strong Woman is always Successful - Kalpana Saroj Story |
At the age of 12, she was married to a boy 10 years older
than her. Due to her in-laws being in a big city like Mumbai, she left her
small village and moved to Mumbai. Her in-laws were in a slum in Mumbai. But
she did not have the luck of a beautiful and happy married life as she thought.
She had the responsibility of doing all the housework in the in-laws house. At
the age of 12, when young children play with toys, the girl used to cook 10-12
people and also did many household chores. In-laws were beaten up for not doing
the work properly.
A girl whose journey started with so many problems, today
our country is counted among the most successful women. That girl's name is KALPANA
SAROJ ...
When her father comes to meet Kalpana who is fighting her
atrocities at her in-laws house, he cannot find her daughter. Seeing her
condition, he decided to take his daughter back to the village. Despite the
opposition of the in-laws, she brought small imagination to the village.
Society blames Kalpana for her broken world. Unable to bear
all these things, Kalpana tried to commit suicide by consuming poison, but
luckily she survived. After this incident, there was a lot of change in her and
she decided to show her future life to do something for herself.
She tried to find a job in different places but due to lack
of education, she found failure everywhere. Then she decided to go to Mumbai to
find work. After celebrating her mother, she came to Mumbai. Identifying her
uncle, she got involved in stitching work.
But due to lack of confidence there, she continued to work
as a helper for a month. After gaining a little confidence, she started working
as a prisoner in the same company.
She first saw a 100 rupee note when she became a trader
after Helper's job of 60 rupees a month.
After that her younger siblings moved to Mumbai. After
coming to Mumbai, one of her sisters died due to illness. It had a profound
effect on the young imagination.
Due to the lack of money, she could not find a child for her
sister, thinking that she started working more. She also got the idea to start her
own business during this time.
From her home, she started searching for different schemes
and started her business by taking loan. Kalpana slowly started to increase her
experience in business by starting a business of beauty parlour and furniture.
Kalpana, who does small business, now got the opportunity to
go to real estate when she got an offer to sell a plot of land. Kalpana
collected lakhs of rupees by collecting money from different places and bought
that plot. After purchasing the plot, she came to know about the troubles going
on.
After 3-4 years of hard work and struggle, she finally got
that plot free from all government problems, then its price increased by more
than 20 times. On that plot, she built a building with her Sindhi partner and
from that she started travelling in real estate.
After rattling through such difficulties, people started knowing
and accepting Kalpana Ji. But there was still a turning point in her life -
named Kamani Tubes!
The Kamani Tubes Company was going through very bad
conditions at that time. Due to such troubles she was going to close soon.
Seeing that the employees working in the Kamani Tubes offered Kalpana Ji to
take over the company. This was a very risky decision. Despite having no
experience in running an engineering company, she took this risk and today
"Kamani Tubes" has become a company of about 100 million dollars
growing rapidly.
It is a matter of pride for all of us that a girl who has
come from a small house without any education or degree is achieving new
positions in real estate and engineering big business. She has been awarded
many awards for this work of Kalpana ji.
In 2013, she was awarded the Padma Shri award. She was also
awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Woman Entrepreneurs for her outstanding work
in the business sector.
Kalpana Ji, who took a loan from the bank to start her
business, is today a member of the Board of Directors of Bhartiya Mahila Bank.
You must have read a lot of success story about successful
persons, but Kalpana ji's struggle proves her to be the most different as an entrepreneur,
not just a Dalit or just a woman.
Kalpana ji considers Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar and she also
wants to help people like him. Kalpana Ji showed people through her work that
no matter what background you come from, if you are willing to work hard then
you can work in any field and become successful.
