GUNTUR: In a real-life example of actor Mahesh Babu’s character in Srimanthudu, this Tenali man left his dollar dreams to enrich lives of the less privileged students. Dr Kolasani Ramchand, a native of Eepuru village in Tenali, completed B.Tech from Gulbarga University in Karnataka, pursued MS from BITS Pilani and Ph.
D from Acharya Nagarjuna University. In 1997, he secured a job at Morgan Stanley, a multi-national investment bank in the US. However, his passion for teaching motivated him to resign from his well-paying job and leave his luxurious lifestyle to come back to India.
Leaving the job was not an easy decision, Ramchand said, and recalled, “I was working as a senior system programmer at one of the most reputed companies in the world. Though I loved my work, I always felt I should be doing something more. When I decided to quit my job and move back home to my native place, my family members vehemently opposed it.
But with the support of my wife, I took the leap of faith and reached India.” Once he was back home in 2000, he was offered a lecturer job at ASN Degree College in Tenali. “The feeling of making a difference in the lives of so many youngsters gave me a sense of fulfillment,” he noted.
Ramchand designed special courses to empower rural students with the required soft skills, certificate courses, and virtual internship programmes. As a result of his initiative and hard work, over 1,200 students from the college got placements in prestigious companies s.
