Guest faculty by day, porter by night: This teacher does two jobs for the education of poor children

Nageshu Patro from Odisha's Ganjam district works as a guest lecturer in a private college by day and as a porter at Berhampur railway station by night. He does this not to earn more money, but to bear the cost of the education of poor children.
Nageshu, 31, has opened a coaching center to provide free education to poor children. With the money he earns by working as a coolie, he pays the teachers of this coaching center. At the beginning of the day, he attends a private college as a guest faculty, after which he gives classes at his coaching centre. At night he works as a coolie at the railway station.
Patro said that instead of sitting idly at his home during the Corona pandemic, he started teaching poor children for free. As the number of children started increasing, he opened a coaching center for classes 8 to 12 children. He himself teaches Hindi and Oriya to the children here.
He earns Rs 10,000 to 12,000 a month by working as a porter, out of which he gives Rs 3,000 to 4,000 to the four teachers of the coaching centre. With the Rs 8,000 he gets from the college, he takes care of his family's expenses. He is survived by his mother and father, with whom he lives in Manohar village in the Ganjam district.
Patro himself comes from a poor family. In 2006, he could not give the high school exam. His father worked as a shepherd and could barely make ends meet. In such a situation, it was a distant dream for him to study well. Since then he has set out on the mission of educating children.
Regarding working as a porter while being a college teacher, Patro says let people think what they think, I like to teach children and I want to continue the education of poor children. I do not want children from poor families to have to leave their studies midway due to a lack of money.
Patro had registered himself as a porter at the railway station in 2011. After this, he gave the 12th examination in 2012 through a correspondence course. After passing 12th, he did graduation and post-graduation from Berhampur University.
He spent all his studies while being a coolie. He said that now people have started using trolley bags and escalators, due to which his earnings as coolie have come down. He has appealed to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav to take some steps for the coolies.