24-year-old quits IAS to turn free e-tutor


What do you do when you are 24 years old, have already earned your medical degree, cracked the civil services exam and become an assistant district collector?

You dream, of course, of a bright future in administration and a crack at the top bureaucrat's post in three decades' time. And that is exactly what Roman Saini did not do.

Saini has resigned after two years as assistant collector of Jabalpur and ventured into an area where he may neither earn like a doctor nor wield clout like a babu. All he wants to do is to see students get past the various academic hurdles that stand in the way of youthful ambitions. He uploads lectures on his Unacademy platform on YouTube for those aspiring to become doctors, civil servants, computer programmers, even experts in foreign languages. Ten followers have cleared the civil services exams and more than 1.1 crore have viewed the videos, while Unacademy has 20,000 Twitter followers and 64,000 Facebook likes.............Read more

 

Source: The Times of India


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