Born Blind, how Srikanth Bolla went on to earn an MIT diploma and located a 100 Crore firm

For the previous few years, international locations around the globe are witnessing the facility of Indian entrepreneurship. The nation is minting unicorns at an unprecedented fee and these firms usually are not solely serving home clients but additionally fixing international issues.The post-liberalization period supplied new alternatives to proficient individuals throughout the nation to develop into wealthy with out household or political connections. The individuals educated in post-liberalization India know no bounds, regardless of the limitations nature has imposed.Srikanth Bolla, a 29-year-old differently-abled (visually impaired) individual from Andhra Pradesh is serving as an exemplary instance of India’s entrepreneurial expertise. Born to a farming household as a visually impaired youngster, individuals in his village instructed his dad and mom to ship the kid to an orphanage. However, his dad and mom stored religion within the youngster and God.“My parents, Damodar Rao and Venkatamma were devastated that their baby was born blind. But at every stage, from the time they initiated me into a school in a rural area, they had to fight the system. Having faced challenges at every stage during my education, I always had the urge to do something differently,” mentioned Srikanth.Bolla proved to be a really meritorious youngster and went on to develop into the primary worldwide blind pupil in Brain and Cognitive Science and Business on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And after that Bolla didn’t take up some straightforward job of educational or salaried skilled (which he would have simply obtained given his MIT credentials), and even some rent-seeking bureaucrat (Indian authorities provides reservation of differently-abled individuals in civil companies) however took the hardest job of an entrepreneur.Srikant Bolla runs Bollant Industries Limited as its CEO, with 5 factories using over 650 individuals, practically half of whom are differently-abled women and men. Srikanth manufactures eco-friendly, disposable shopper packaging options value Rs 100 crores.Right from pupil days, Bolla has gained many awards and recognitions. For entrepreneurship, he has been acknowledged by varied nationwide, worldwide organizations together with the Emerging Leadership Award, given by ECLIF Malaysia, and the Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 award, given by CII. And quickly Bolla can have a well-deserved biopic.Tushar Hiranandani, who made the biopic Sandh Ki Ankh starring Bhumi Pednekar and Taapsee Pannu, is all set to make a biopic on Bolla. Given his extremely inspirational story, Bolla may be the poster youngster of India’s post-liberalization success story, and it solely appears pure that somebody thought-about making a biopic on Srikanth. “I am only interested in making biopics,” says Tushar. “I am doing a Hotstar show currently. But I am also busy writing his film with Jagdeep Sidhu, a writer who has also written Sandh Ki Ankh.”“He went ahead and showed everyone that anyone can start a business and be successful too,” Tushar provides. Interestingly, the movie will characteristic all real-life heroes, Tushar tells us. “All real heroes from Srikanth Bolla to Ravi will feature on reel and we plan to have the real Hyderabadi accent in the portions to be shot in Hyderabad. The idea is to keep the story as real as possible,” he provides.Since the Modi authorities got here to energy, many schemes have been launched to encourage Divyang (differently-abled) individuals. The current success of India on the Paralympics served as a very good inspiration for greater than 2.68 crore individuals of the nation. The story of Srikanth Bolla will encourage differently-abled individuals to enter totally different fields similar to schooling and entrepreneurship.