Contributor Personality Development(2990001)

1. Contributor Personality Development(2990001)
group Project
“Chapter No 3 and project no.1”
Branch : mech I 3
Prepared by :- jani parth u (150120119051)
Guided By: hetal mem

2. Mary Kom
• Mary Kom was born in 1983 in a poor family in Kangathei, Manipur.
• Her family background speaks a lot of how Mary overcame hardship and inconveniences and
created a name for herself in the arena of world boxing.
• Mary helped her parents work in the fields, cutting woods, making charcoal and fishing
• She took to sports in an effort to provide some financial support to her family.

3. • She began boxing in 2000 and was a quick learner who preferred to be put through the same
paces as the boys around her. “In just two weeks, I had learnt all the basics. I guess I had God-
given talent for boxing.”
• At a tender age of 18, Mary made her debut at the first Women World Boxing Championship,
after just one year of starting to learn boxing, which was held at Pennsylvania, USA. At her
debut event itself, she won a silver medal in the 46 kg weight category .
• A year later, she went on to win the gold at the second Association Internationale de Boxe
Amateur (AIBA) World Women’s Senior Boxing Championship. held at Antalya, Turkey.
• Mary Kom’s Quote
“Don’t give up as there is always a next time. Think that if Mary Kom, a
mother of two, can do it, why can’t you?.

4. • Mary Kom is a five time successive World Boxing champion, a biennial amateur boxing
competition organised by the International Boxing Association (AIBA). She is the only woman
boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six World Championships.
• As of June 2012, she is ranked world no. 4 in the 51 kg women’s category by AIBA. She has
more than three Asian titles and eleven National titles under her belt .
• She is a recipient of the Arjuna Award, the Padma Shri Award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award and a special award from AIBA.
• Mary Kom created history by becoming first person from north east to win bronze medal in
Olympics 2012

5. Milkha Singh(the Flying Sikh)
He was born into a Sikh Rathore Rajput family in
Punjab, in undivided India during the pre-
independence days. He was one of 15 siblings,
many of whom died during childhood.
The partition of Indian happened when he was still
a teenager. In the violence that ensued, he
the killings of his parents and several siblings before
his very eyes. His father, as he lay dying told Milkha
to run for his life.
Hindus and Sikhs were targeted and mercilessly
killed in Punjab. He escaped to Delhi in 1947.
Thankfully he had a married sister living there who
helped him in his rehabilitation.

6. • He was very heart broken and disillusioned after losing so many members of his family and he
considered becoming a dacoit. However, one of his brothers advised him to join the army
instead.
• As a young boy living in a rural place, he had the habit of running the 10 km distance to reach
his school. His early habit of running helped him finish sixth in a compulsory cross-country run
for new recruits. He was selected by the army for special training in athletics.
• He participated in the National Games of India in Cuttack in 1958 where he set national
records for the 200m and 400m.
• The same year he won a gold medal in the 400m competition at the Commonwealth Games in
Cardiff, making him the first male Indian to have won an individual athletics gold medal at
those Games.
• Jawaharlal Nehru convinced Milkha to get over his past and go to Pakistan. His race against
Abdul Khaliq was a much anticipated one—over 7,000 people had gathered in the stadium to
watch the race. Milkha once again beat Khaliq in a nail-biting finish.

7. • He participated in the 1960 Olympic Games in which he was one of the favorites. He finished
fourth in the 400m final which was eventually won by the American Otis Davis. Losing at the
Olympic is something that haunts the great athlete even today.
• In the year 1958 alone, he won many major events. He won the Gold medals in the 200m and
400m competitions at the Asian Games and Gold at the 440 yards event in Commonwealth
Games.

8. Dashrath Manji(The mountain Man)
• In 1956, Manjhi, a native of Gahlaur village near Gaya district in Bihar, was married off in his childhood.
• As a grown-up man, when he returned to his village after working in Dhanbad coal mines for seven years, he fell
head-over-heels in love with a village girl, Falguni Devi.
•
Years passed on, during which Gahlour was hit by a massive drought and villagers evacuated the village.
Dashrath's father taunted him that what he had achieved in last so many years.
• He tried to convince Dashrath to accompany them to a city, where he could earn bread for his two children. But,
Dashrath decided to continue on his herculean task. With no water and no food, Dashrath was forced to drink
dirty water and eat leaves.

9. • A tragedy changed his life One day, Falguni, who was heavily pregnant, was
taking lunch for her husband to the fields, for which she needed to climb the
mountain in the scorching heat.
• Unfortunately, Falguni's foot got slipped and she fell down from the mountain,
while hungry Dashrath was waiting for the food. Then someone from the village
alerted Dashrath that his wife has fallen down from the mountain.
• Dashrath runs into panic and took her blood-splattered wife to the nearest
hospital that was 70 kms away, where she was declared brought dead, but she
gave birth to a baby girl.
The heart-broken Manjhi, who loved his wife more than anything else in the
world, began cursing the huge mountain and vowed to bring it down to break
its ego.
• In the memory of his beloved wife, determined Manjhi took a hammer and a
chisel and embarked on a tough and almost impossible mission. He decided to
carve out a path, so that no other person suffers like her wife.

10. • poor Dashrath was cheated by him and he decided to complaint against him to the PM.
• Dashrath who had grew very older, by then, felt that he has failed and his efforts have not
yielded any positive results. A ray of hope arose when few villagers join Dashrath in his uphill
task of carving out a path.
Dashrath, single-handedly carved out a 360-feet-long, 30-feet-high and 30-feet-wide passage
through the mountain.
• He made the difference into the lives of villagers by shortening the 55 kms distance into 15
kms. Finally, in 1982, Manjhi's 22 years of toil and labour brought a new morning, when the
government roped-in to make the road by carving the mountain.
• In 2006, his name was proposed for Padma Shri Award in social service sector.