Year 1998

I joined M.P.Bhoj Open University for BCA, as an alternative to BSc to get a Bachelors Degree. The university opened about 5 years back. Shishir Saxena, my classmate advised me to go for BCA rather than BSc, though it matters nothing in Railways. After joining, I met with two other students, and we became friends. One of them is Amit Shrivas and other is Vinod Soni. Both of them were diploma engineers. Amit was about of my age, whereas Vinod is younger by 2 or 3 years. Amit was working in some Edible Oil manufacturing company, and also doing part-time course for BE. Vinod was preparing for exams in Government organisation along with BCA. Later in the year 2003 Amit got job in Railways as Asst. Driver in Kharagpur division and later got transferred to Bilaspur division. Vinod got job in a private company “Prakash Industries” at Champa near to Bilaspur.