Srikanth Bolla a 29 year old blind entrepreneur from Hyderabad, India. he was born on 7 July
1991 at Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. When he was born, his family were totally
depend on farming. At that time his family were earning Rs 20000 yearly.
Srikanth bolla was visually impaired by birth, despite of this, he had got 90% marks in class
10th. For higher education he chose science stream, but he was not allowed to take science
stream. He decided to file a case against state government, fought for six months and won the
case. He scored 98% with science stream in class 12th. after that, he wanted to appear in IIT,
NITS and other competitive exams, but no one gave him hall ticket for writing competitive
exams. then he applied for overseas, and got selected in 4 of the best colleges ever in the world:
MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, etc. He chose Massachusetts Institute of Technology and got
scholarship. He was the first international blind international student of MIT. After completing
graduation, he returned back India in 2012. After that, he launched Bollant Industries, in which
60% employees were poor and physically challenged. Now, Bollant Industries has 450
employees and the total worth of Rs 50 crore. recently Mr. Ratan tata founder of tata group
invested in bolla's venture.
Bolla said, when the world said to me that i can't do anythink, I said "I was made blind by the
perception of people, but I look up at the world and say I can do anything".
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