Despite all challenges a 23 year old who can't see built a ₹ 50 Crore company
19-Dec-2015
Srikanth Bolla was born blind and was also born poor. In school he was made to sit at the back bench.
In 10th class he secured 90% and wanted to pursue science but was denied due to this disability. He fought against this discrimination in court and was allowed to pursue science.
He learnt to play chess & cricket and also excelled in them. He studied day and night through audio books and secured 98% in 12th class exams.
He applied for BITS Pilani & IIT, and other engineering colleges, but did not get a chance because of his disability.
He then applied to schools in the US and got in MIT, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford. He became the first international blind student to be admitted to MIT and got a scholarship.
After finishing studies, he was offered a job at GE but returned to India to start Bollant Industries which employs differently abled employees to manufacture Eco friendly disposable consumer packaging solutions with an aim to integrate differently abled people in society.
He now has plants in Hubli, Nizamabad, and two plants in Hyderabad.