I came to know about this person from a facebook post of my friend. "Dashrath Manjhi (1934 - August 17, 2007 ) was born into a poor labourer family in Gahlour village near Gaya in Bihar , India . He is also known as Mountain Man. Dashrath Majhi's wife, Falguni Devi, died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a doctor was 70 km 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 75 km to 1 km, bringing him national acclaim. He died on August 17, 2007. He was given a state funeral by the Government of Bihar ." - Wikipedia An excellent article written o
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