As a child, I could not go to school because of the mentality that Dalits should give priority to their profession over studies. That's why from the age of 6/7, I followed my father and wandered from village to village.

My residence is in Sharada Municipality-1 Shantinagar. To earn a living, my father used to go from village to village to make and repair Madal. He used to teach me some work while working and make me do it . I wondered what my father would have done when I was young. As I grew older, I realized that they were teaching me to make Madal.

When I was 14 years old, I was good at making models but I was not very good at making models. Sometimes I used to make Madal and most of the time I went to work . I could not get a daily wage job. Hamme Hamme happened to raise a family of eight. That's why I started the ancestral profession of making Madal according to the skills taught by my father. 

Now I am 55 years old . I am doing business by renting a room in Srinagar bazaar at a distance of 500 meters from home and opening Salyani Madal Udyog. Up to 60,000 is earned monthly by selling new models and repairing old ones. Madal industry has now become a good means of livelihood for me and my family. I am easily supporting a family of eight with the money earned from this. 

There is no land for farming, so all the food has to be bought . A family of eight spends 20 kilos of three grains of rice in a month. A bag of rice costs 2 thousand rupees . It takes 10 kilos of dal worth 2,000 in a month. Similarly, it takes three liters of oil worth 800. We eat 4,000 worth of vegetables. It takes two kilos of meat at a time. A kilo of beef is 400 rupees, 350 rupees of chicken and 350 rupees of pork. If you eat meat one day in a week, it costs 5 thousand more. 

room rent should be paid two thousand . Even though I don't study, I am teaching my children in public school . Even if you can't buy books, you spend about 1,000 a month to buy materials such as paper, pen, dress, and shoes. 5,000 to buy new clothes and other goods. 20/22 thousand will be saved by cutting all the expenses in 60 thousand . I save some and since my brother also works together, he and I divide the amount equally. 

Until a few years ago, if you had to work, you used to worry about whether you would get a daily job or not. I had to borrow money from the shop on days when I didn't get work. It was difficult to eat two meals with a full stomach . After adopting the ancestral profession according to the skill, now there is no need to depend on anyone . When I feel like eating something, I can buy it and wear new clothes if I feel like it. At home, if the family asked for money for expenses, the moneylender from the place of work would say Dimla. Not so now .