This is a story of the indomitable human spirit that has the power to triumph over the worst tragedies imaginable. This is also a story of hopes and aspirations, of grit and determination. This is the story of a son of a poor farm labourer who overcame his total hearing impairment and speech problem to become an IAS officer. As three months from now in December, thousands of aspirants across the country will sweat their guts out to write the gruelling Civil Services Mains Examination, Bureaucracy Today brings to them the inspirational and heart warming tale of IAS officer Mani Ram Sharma who refused to surrender to his tragic circumstances and has proved the worth of a saying that “when the going gets tough, the tough get going”.
Circa 2004. A young man from an interior Rajasthan village entered the “hallowed” Union Public Service Commission Office building located in New Delhi for an interview for a Civil Services selection. “So young man, your hobby as you have filled up in your form is to see dreams. So do you always sleep in your free time and see dreams?” one of the interviewers asked the youth. His candid reply won the hearts of Interview Board members. And when the final results were out, he was selected for the prestigious Indian Administrative Service.
That man was none other than Mani Ram Sharma who is now posted as Deputy Commissioner of Nuh district in Haryana.
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But as they say, “it is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness”. Similar was the case with Mani Ram who in spite of scoring 243 marks out of the 300 in the UPSC Exam 2004 and clearing the interview was denied entry as there is no Government policy of inducting fully deaf candidates into the Civil Services.
To reach the spot where he is to-day, Mani Ram had to fight a long battle of several years and appeared for the UPSC exams thrice, all of which he cleared with flying colours.
FIGHTING DESTINY
“It is not in our hands to choose our parents, community or religion, but we can always choose the kind of life we want to live,” says Mani Ram as he bares his heart out during a conversation with Bureaucracy Today.
Born to the farm-labourer parents in Badangarhi village of Rajasthan’s Alwar district, Mani Ram experienced the blow of destiny at the young age of five when he started losing his hearing power due to a hereditary problem in his family. And one fateful day when he was nine years old, Mani Ram completely lost his hearing ability.
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