Mechanical Engineer Quits Job To Build Pond In A Village
by The Daily Eye Team April 19 2016, 10:50 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 57 secsAfter quitting his job as an engineer, Shashank Singh decided to take up a development project in rural Rajasthan. Today, he is living in a village, helping rejuvenate a pond that will help generations to come.
When 25-year-old Shashank Singh entered a village in Rajasthan with a solid plan for a rural development project, he never knew that he would end up working on something completely different.“During a survey to find out what problems people were facing, I went to a village near the place where I was supposed to start my project. It had a very nice pond that the villagers had been using for years. Speaking to a teacher there, I came to know about the time around 40 years ago when they had mobilised the community and constructed the pond together. It was then that I decided to replicate the project no matter what,” says 25-year-old Shashank Singh Kachwaha, who then went on to start a project on rejuvenation of an old pond and construction of a cattle park in ChotaNaraina village located in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan.