SST IPBL-2 Act5
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- Since her childhood, Chandani was very interested in her father's work. Once, her father did not come home for three days, as he was part of the team handling a mishap in the mines. When he returned home, he described the situation and how they solved it. From then, she decided that she will follow her father's footsteps and take mining as her career.
- Chandrani did a diploma course in Mining Mine Surveying in 1995 from Govt. Polytechnic College, Nagpur. After her diploma she wanted to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in mining. However, no engineering college would grant her admission in mining engineering just because she was a woman. Chandrani and her father contacted a lawyer and filed a petition that there can be no gender discrimination in education. The proceedings took a year and finally, in 1996, Chandrani got admission in the mining engineering course as a ‘special case’.
- Chandrani completed B. E (Mining Engineering) from Ramdeobaba Engineering College, Nagpur, in the first position, with merit, in 1999. Despite being the university topper, Chandrani was not selected for any job during the campus recruitment process, simply because she was a girl.
- But she did not give up. She continued on her journey of acquiring more degrees in mining. In 2006, she completed her Master’s in Mining Engineering (M.Tech) from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur. In December 2015, she completed her PhD on Web pillar design in highwall mining.
- “Her best quality is that she does not hesitate at all. She is very clear about the fact that she is here to work and she never expects special treatment,” said Dr. Thote, Chandrani’s PhD guide. Once, she had to work on the testing of 400 coal samples for her research. Usually, the lab technicians did the testing and charged money for it. But, in this case, the lab technicians wanted to charge extra because they thought she won't be able to manage it herself. But, Chandrani believed in herself, she tied a scarf across her face and entered the lab. Within two months, Chandrani had tested and prepared almost 600 coal samples, all on her own
- Chandrani was the only woman candidate when she went for an interview at CSIR – Central Institute of Mining Fuel Research. Most of the members of the interview panel were hesitant to recruit a female as a research fellow in mining. But one of the interviewers, Dr. Achyuta Krishna Ghosh, insisted that they recruit Chandrani. He had sensed her passion for mining and was impressed with her determination since she had travelled a long way and then waited until midnight for an interview.
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