Nageshu Patro, who teaches as a guest teacher (lecturer) in a private college in Odisha, works as a porter at night. Let us know why he does this.
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How hard teachers work to teach us, sometimes students are unaware of it. Teachers have only one aim, that is that each of their students should achieve success in their life through the knowledge they get. 31-year-old Nageshu Patro, a resident of Odisha’s Ganjam district, has a similar motive. He is not an ordinary teacher as he works with the students as well as his fellow students. Teachers Let’s work hard to help. This hard work is not only mental, but physical. Let us know what work the characters do.
Daralas, Nageshu Patro is a guest teacher (lecturer) in a private college by profession. During the day he goes to the college and teaches the students. At the same time, he works as a coolie at Berhampur railway station at night. Patro’s work as a coolie is not to fill his pocket, but to pay the salaries of the teachers he has hired to teach poor students at a coaching center free of cost.
As the day begins, Patro goes to a private college as a guest teacher. After this he takes classes for free in his coaching center opened for poor students. At night he moonlights as a porter at Berhampur railway station.
Opened coaching to teach poor children
Nageshu Patro said that instead of sitting idle at home during the COVID epidemic, he started teaching poor children for free. As the number of students increased, he established a coaching center for students from class eight to 12. He himself teaches Hindi and Odia, while he has taken the services of other teachers for the rest of the subjects. Patro has taken the services of four other teachers in his coaching centre, whom he pays around Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000. But to pay this much money, he earns by working as a porter at the railway station.
runs the house with his salary
When Patro was asked if he felt ashamed of working as a porter after being a lecturer himself, he replied, ‘Whatever people think, let them think, I love teaching and I want to help poor students. I want to continue it. The Rs 8,000 he earns as a guest lecturer in a private college, which he uses to meet the expenses of his family, which includes his parents, lives in Manohar village in Ganjam district.
… when you could not study yourself
Patro, coming from a humble background, could not appear in the 10th examination in the year 2006, as it was difficult for his father, who grazed sheep, to arrange bread for two days. Under such circumstances, education was a distant dream for him. Since then Patro is engaged in the campaign to educate more and more children. He does not want children coming from underprivileged backgrounds to leave their studies due to financial problems of the family.
Patro is registered as a porter at the railway station from the year 2011. In the year 2012, he decided to give the 12th class examination through correspondence course. After this he did his graduation and post graduation from Berhampur University. He completed all his higher education with his own money earned by working as a porter at night. He said that nowadays people are using trolley bags and escalators, so the earning as coolie has reduced. He urged Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav to do something for the coolie community who work hard at the railway station.
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