Ballygunge dhobi’s son irons out odds, now a CA
Times of India | 23 July 2024Aman’s father, Raj Kishore Rajak, has been running a laundry service at the basement of Sunny Towers in Ballygunge since 1999.Raj had learnt about CA as a profession from his customers.
Back in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, his relatives discouraged him—warning him of the hurdles—but Raj stood his ground and fuelled the dreams of Aman. Life in the metro city had its own share of challenges. But Raj left behind farming and his ancestral home in Bihar to ensure his children dream big.
After Aman completed his high school studies in Bihar under the state board there in 2019, Raj shifted his entire family to Kolkata.
With the money he had saved over the years, Raj bought an one-bedroom house in Kasba for Rs 3.5 lakh so that Aman could chase his dreams in the city.
“Every time my father would return home to Muzaffarpur, he would talk to me about the CA course. Over the years working at Sunny Towers, he had gathered information regarding the course and had started saving money for coaching classes and buying me books,” he said, adding his father had spent more than a lakh for him to pursue the CA courses.
Though Aman was good at mathematics and science and his teachers suggested him to pursue a career in engineering, he passed the CA foundation course in 2019 and its intermediate level in Nov, 2020. Later, he completed the three-year CA articleship training at a multinational company. His internship was completed in March this year.
