If you are currently feeling down on your luck, the story of Pratap Dighavkar is just what you need today to inspire you. From a farmer in a small village to becoming an IPS officer, Dighavkar is proof that you must never give up on your dreams.
In a Humans of Bombay post, Dighavkar notes that having come from a small village called Litania near Nashik, the only profession that most people followed in his hometown was farming. And yet, he harboured dreams of working for the government.
Despite having scored well in his final board exams, he still lost out on getting admission to the only college in his village, so his father instructed him to help him with farming.
But he simply refused to give up. Borrowing a sum of ₹350 from his mother, he enrolled himself in a distance learning programme. By 18, having graduated, he also cleared the police service exam.
And yet, his journey was far from over.
In 2000, he became an IPS officer. In the post, he says, “I’ve build schools in my village, set up a dream housing society for 10,000 constables and spoken at the United Nations — all because I had a dream.”
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Looking back on his storied career, Dighavkar has only one piece of advice to the world – giving up is not option.
He says, “My only message would be to chase that dream with so much passion, that there’s no other choice but for it to come true — and it does… I’m the living proof of that.”
“I was born in a small village called Litania near Nashik. We had only one primary school in our village and the only…
Posted by Humans of Bombay on Saturday, February 18, 2017
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