Polytechnic College.ĭefying personal odds and stereotypes, Sreedhi overhauls the Kirloskar engine and does polishing and transition works. However, she is pursuing her final year of automobile engineering, in a classroom full of boys and two girls, at MahaKavi Vennikulam Gopalakurup Memorial Govt. Sreedhi admits that she faced various criticism from society for her profession."It hasn't been a smooth ride," she says. After practising motor vehicle mechanics, Sreedhi decided to continue her passion, though she got admission to learn Ayurveda medicine. Sreedhi repaired a broken down TVS scooter all by herself when she was 18, her first on-site work. Without even knowing, I started liking the idea of repairing and giving life to those vehicles that are hard to revive," says Sreedhi. He taught me how to identify the core issue and tools required to mend etc. When I was 15 years old, my father gave me abandoned vehicles to practice on. Later, I began repairing the wheels of my friend’s cycles. Sitting on my father's lap, I used to enjoy watching the functioning of an automobile. "I grew up amid screwdrivers, pliers and screw pitch gauge. Now, the youngster can assemble any vehicle - heavy ones, four-wheelers and two-wheelers, including vintage models like Bajaj M80 and Yamaha RX 100. He runs a workshop adjacent to their house and introduced her to his job when she was a kid. It was her father Prasad KS who introduced her to the world of mechanics. By defying stereotypes, the 22-year-old works along with her father at her workshop.
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