User:Krishna Nath Pandey

Dr. Krishna Nath Pandey Date of Birth: 21-07-1957 Early Years Born to Mrs. Piyari Pandey and Mr. Vansh Raj Pandey on 21st July 1957 in Siddharthanagar (Uttar Pradesh, India), he lost his father in 1960 and was brought up by his mother in abject poverty. He grew up as a sick child due to malnourishment and penury for not affording medicine. He attended the school where a single teacher was teaching all the classes from standard one to fifth. He topped in the 5th Standard examination conducted by the District Board, Siddharthanagar and moved to Shri Singheshwari Inter College, Siddharthanagar and completed his education upto 12th Standard where he scored highest percentile in Arts stream of the school. Further education was not possible but he got help from his elder brother and completed his under graduation from from Awadh University, Faizabad (Uttar Pradesh, India). He had a burning desire to go for higher studies, but the resources were not available. However, he worked at Bobina Hotel, Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh, India) and after saving money he could complete his M.A. (English) and topped at the University examination of Gorakhpur University. This achievement was widely reported in the vernacular media. The childhood for him was highly traumatizing but tween years were far more disturbing as he realized that society around him was highly feudalistic. This teenager’s journey was revealing yo him that education was the only tool to overcome the destitution, insult, poverty and discrimination hurled by the unjust society in eastern part of Uttar Pradesh bordering Bihar. It was the lowest in the index measured by any scale whether social, economic, political and dignity of human life. Subsequently he joined Government of India as a public servant in the Ministry of Human Resource Development and obtained another Masters Degree in Hindi & Linguistics and topped at the Mysore University Examination getting a gold medal. Prof Pandey, a co-ordinate bilingual took a Diploma in Translation from Bureau of Translation, Government of India, topped once again and was awarded the Topper’s Medal He capped his educational journey with a Ph.D in Management, Topic-Knowledge Management: A Case study of POWERGRID