Where losers of mind fail to tread

 

The potentiality of our mind is immeasurable. Within it lies the seed of success and failure, happiness and sorrow, hope and despair. It’s a very powerful force which can enslave us or empower us. With the mindset of a visionary, Laungi Bhuiyan, an uneducated, poor farmer of Kothiwala Village in Lathua area of Gaya in Bihar has proved its infinite power.





 

“Once a goal is set deep in our mind, no force can deter it.”

 

Single-handedly, he dug a canal of 3 km length to carry water from the hills to the fields of his village for irrigation purposes. Challenges were many, rough paths, unfavourable climatic conditions, but these did not prevent him from his vision of providing rainwater to his village.

When asked about his mission, he said, “the major occupation of people in Gaya is farming and animal husbandry. I was much disturbed seeing the rainwater flowing towards rivers, during rainy seasons, from the nearby hills.” Then he thought to execute his plan of digging the canal which takes the water to the pond in his village. "For the last 30 years, I would go to the nearby jungle to tend my cattle and dig out the canal. No one joined me in this endeavour. Villagers are going to cities to earn a livelihood but I decided to stay back. Many a time villagers and even family has tried to stop him”, he said.

Bhuiyan had only one wish, a tractor for his agricultural purpose, hearing this, Anand Mahindra, chairman of Mahindra Group readily fulfilled his everlasting desire. Anand Mahindra thinks “Laungi Bhuiyan’s canal is no less impressive than monuments like Taj Mahal, and indeed it’s an honour to Mahindra group to give him their tractor, for his relentless, untiring hard work. Now Bhuiyan in Bihar’s “Canal man”, humbled before his priceless gift, is happy as his own people admitted of how his years-long toiling will benefit to irrigate the fields, large number of animals and people. Many will be benefiting from the water especially during the rainy season.

The Canal the monument built by Bhuiyan now live along with the people of Gaya and people across India, as a symbol of persistent hard work, dedication, toiling for 30 years, singlehandedly, to fulfil his vision, with an optimistic view, that anything is possible if you put your heart and soul into it.

“Ultimate success surely depends upon the resolute determination of the mind.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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