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Dashrath Manjhi was born on 14 January, 1934 in Gehlaur, Bihar, British India, is a Man known for building path through a mountain in India. Discover Dashrath Manjhi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Labourer
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 14 January 1934
Birthday 14 January
Birthplace Gehlaur, Bihar, British India
Date of death 17 August, 2007
Died Place New Delhi, India
Nationality India

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1934

Dashrath Manjhi (14 January 1934 – 17 August 2007), also known as Mountain Man, was an Indian laborer from Gehlaur village, near Gaya in the eastern state of Bihar.

1959

When his wife died in 1959 due to injury caused by falling from a mountain and due to the same mountain blocking easy access to a nearby hospital in time, he decided to carve a 110 meter-long (360 ft), 9.1 meter-wide (30 ft) wide and 7.7 meter-deep (25 ft) path through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel.

After 22 years of work, Dashrath shortened travel between the Atri and Wazirganj

blocks of Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km. He travelled to New Delhi to get recognition of his work and was rewarded by then Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar.

In 1959, Manjhi's wife Falguni Devi was badly injured and died because she fell from the mountain and the nearest town with a doctor was 90 km away.

Some reports say she was injured while walking along a narrow path across the rocky ridge to bring water or lunch to Manjhi, who had to work away from the village at a location south of the ridge; other reports link the path across the ridge to the delayed care but not to Falguni Devi's injuries.

As a result of this experience Manjhi resolved to cut a roadway across the ridge to make his village more accessible.

Manjhi felt the need to do something for society and decided to carve a path through the ridge so that his village could have easier access to medical care.

He carved a path 110 m long, 7.7 m deep in places and 9.1 m wide to form a road through the ridge of rocks.

The latitude and longitude are approximately 24.87725°N, 85.24328°W.

He said, "When I started hammering the hill, people called me a lunatic but that steeled my resolve."

1960

He completed the work in 22 years (1960–1982).

This path reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj sectors of Gaya district from 55 km to 15 km. Though mocked for his efforts, Manjhi's work has made life easier for people of the Gehlaur village.

Later, Manjhi said, "Though most villagers taunted me at first, there were quite a few who lent me support later by giving me food and helping me buy my tools."

1998

The first of these was a supporting character based on Manjhi in the 1998 Kannada-language movie Bhoomi Thayiya Chochchala Maga.

2006

The Bihar government also proposed his name for the Padma Shree award in 2006 in the social service sector.

2007

Official roads between his village in Atri and Wazirganj, over the path he carved, were only built after his death in 2007.

Manjhi was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer and was admitted to the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on 23 July 2007.

He died there on 17 August 2007.

He was given a state funeral by the Government of Bihar.

For his feat, Manjhi became popularly known as the 'Mountain Man'.

2011

Manjhi's story also had a minor role in a later Kannada film, 2011's Olave Mandara directed by Jayatheertha.

In 2011, director Kumud Ranjan working for the state-owned Films Division of India produced a documentary based on Manjhi's life titled The Man Who Moved the Mountain.

2014

The first episode of Season 2 of the Aamir Khan hosted TV Show Satyamev Jayate, aired in March 2014, was dedicated to Dashrath Manjjhi.

Aamir Khan and Rajesh Ranjan also met Bhagirath Manjhi and Basanti Devi, son and daughter-in-law of Manjhi, and promised to provide financial help.

However, Basanti Devi died due to his inability to afford medical care on 1 April 2014.

2015

In August 2015, a Hindi movie Manjhi - The Mountain Man was released and well received.

The movie was directed by Ketan Mehta.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui played the role of Manjhi along with Radhika Apte as Falguni Devi.

2016

In 2016, Indian Post issued a postage stamp featuring Manjhi.

He ran away from his home at a young age and worked in coal mines at Dhanbad, a city in the eastern state of Jharkhand.

Later he returned to the village of Gehlaur and married Falguni (or Phaguni) Devi.

Gehlaur was and remains a small village with few resources, and while it lies in a plain it is bordered on the south by a steeply ascending quartzite ridge of Mesoproterozoic (1- 1.6 billion years) age (part of the Rajgir hills) that prevented road access from the town of Wazirganj.

After he returned to Gehlaur, Manjhi became an agricultural labourer.

A stamp featuring Dashrath Manjhi was released by India Post in the "Personalities of Bihar" series on 26 December 2016.

Dashrath Manjhi's story has been the subject of at least one documentary and several dramatic treatments in Indian film and television.