IIM Shillong And My Life Story

I belong to a place where many people are not aware of "IIM/IIT." I am the first one from my village to get into an IIM. It was my dream to get into an IIM and study with best minds of the country. After so many failures and successes, I managed to get admission in IIM Shillong. There were some preconceived notions about college and my to-be batchmates. I used to think everyone would be from a wealthy family and they must have seen only good things in their lives. I could be the only one who would be from a low-income family and see all the hardships.

On 22nd June we all joined college. I still thought all other students have a strong family background and plenty of resources available. I had inferiority feeling, and at the same time, I was proud of myself that being a poor I reached here. On one fine morning, we had SLC class and the professor asked us to share our life stories. People were opening up about their struggles and how they overcame it. Everything was going as expected with no fuss. I shared my own story of how I worked hard with not much support and still made it to an IIM. Then came the turn of my friend. He started calmly and went on to explain how his mother single-handedly raised her children without their father's support. Their father did not support the family but created hurdles while mother was making every effort to ensure her children do not get impacted by wrong things committed by their father. She suffered a lot but made sure that her children get a decent education. My friend was calmly narrating all the hardships that his family underwent while all the students, including me, had tears in their eyes.

When he completed his story, everyone gave a standing ovation, and our respect for him grew sky-fold. We all were still shell-shocked when another student rose to tell his story. He had suffered sexual abuse from one of his uncles when he was just seven years old. God did not stop here, and he suffered one another major loss in life when his close relative died. He told how it was difficult to cope up with scarce in his mind. He could not enjoy his childhood because of faults committed by others. He became mature at the early age as there was no one else to take care of him apart from his father. He lived with a mindset of an adult when he was still a teenager.

One of the other classmates shared his story in which he was so poor that his mother used to eat rice with kerosene. His family was not even sure whether they would get anything to eat the next day.

There were few other heart-touching stories, but these people and their hardships are going to teach one thing for a lifetime that "My parents could not provide me money, but they provided the better thing- Happiness."  On that day I understood one thing that it is better to enjoy everything that you have got because many others craved for that but could not get it, rather than creeping about things that you did not get. Since then I have opened up my eyes and tried to become better and responsible person.

Which ABG company would you want to work for and why?

I want to work for Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank Limited. The company provides help to monitor and control the flow of trade which is important for running economy efficiently. Without a proficient installments framework, you have no policing of the framework. You have no assessment motor on things being purchased and sold. This is the reason the war on money isn't a war on money by any stretch of the imagination, yet a war on assess evasion. On the off chance that legislatures can get everything off the system to be enrolled on the system, or on their blockchain later on, at that point they can screen, police and assessment it. That is the genuine purpose of the installments framework. It's not for paying for things or purchasing and offering stuff. It's for keeping control and request, guaranteeing exchange is lawful and that expense is paid.

  Rohan Patil PGP 2nd Year IIM Shillong