Dashrath Manjhi (1934 - August 17, 2007 was born into a poor labourer family in Gahlour village near Gaya in Bihar, India.[1] He is also known as Mountain Man.Dashrath Manjhi's wife, Falguni Devi, died due to lack of medical treatment because the nearest town with a doctor was 70 kilometres (43 mi) away from their village in Bihar, India.
Dashrath did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife, so he carved a 360-foot-long (110 m) through-cut, 25-foot-deep (7.6 m) in places and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) to form a road through a mountain in the Gehlour hills, working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from 75 km to 1 km.
He died on August 17, 2007.He was given a state funeral by the Government of Bihar.

Manjhi had single-handedly carved out a 360-foot and 30-foot wide passage by cutting through a hill near Gahlaur.

The hill stood between the Attari and Wazirgunj blocks in Gaya. Thanks to Manjhi, the blocks have been brought closer than ever before.

'It is a sad story. A state that spends millions of rupees for decoration of ministers' houses failed to fulfil his dream of building a metalled road through the mountain,' said Arun Singh, a journalist who first discovered Manjhi in the 1990s.

'Manjhi died a frustrated man. His work was neither recognised nor awarded. But peopl.