on my life would seem pretty haphazard but then again it would not be very unnatural, because
doesn’t that sound a little familiar. That’s right. That’s what half the engineers do after all, or so
shows the statistics. So what is it in me that helps me distinguish myself from this extremely
competitive crowd. Well nothing but a tiny little trait. I act where the norms would dictate to
ignore and move on. It takes me efforts to move on. I feel that is a very powerful quality. I reside
in a small town of Mourigram in Howrah, West Bengal. This town is governed by a Gram
panchayat and not a municipality. Our home there faces a wide canal which has stagnant water ,
and this is only taken care of before assemble elections and panchayat elections. All residents of
the lane are troubled by the mosquitoes it harbours. One day my father was detected with early
stage malarial fever. It was then that I decided to take care of that with or without the help of
authorities. I collected a group of kids from the locality and in spite of our parents screaming at
us to no go into the drain and scavenge, we still did. And we started cleaning. This moved a lot
of people after some time and everyone gathered and the all the people of lane united for
discussion, which the children were a part of too. It was decided that as a first measure all the
resident will be contributing a certain sum , to hire a person to scavenge and clean the drains a
bit so that for starters the water is not stagnant at the least. This movement created awareness
amongst people and since then everyone had united for any problems in the neighbourhood.
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