Inspiring Story: 24 Year Old Roman Saini IAS Officer Quits Job To Launch E-learning Startup Unacademy so that students Across The Country Realise Their Dreams.

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”

These words by Joseph Campbell perfectly define everything that Roman Saini or as I like to call him, Roman Sir, stands for. For the new people on this planet who ask stupid question like 'does Roman Saini belong to Rome', No, he does not. He's a guy from Rajasthan, who could always move ahead of the mediocre society, could achieve things which an average Indian can only dream of, like getting admission in AIIMS, clearing IAS, being one of the youngest persons to clear the toughest exam of the country. You can read more about him on Wikipedia or just follow him on Quora. He's extraordinarily humble but this write-up is not about his personality.

Saini has resigned after two years as assistant collector of Jabalpur and ventured into an area where he may neither earn like a doctor nor wield clout like a babu. All he wants to do is to see students get past the various academic hurdles that stand in the way of youthful ambitions. He uploads lectures on his Unacademy platform on YouTube for those aspiring to become doctors, civil servants, computer programmers, even experts in foreign languages. Ten followers have cleared the civil services exams and more than 1.1 crore have viewed the videos, while Unacademy has 20,000 Twitter followers and 64,000 Facebook likes.


He was inspired in the venture by his school pal Gaurav Munjal, who approached Saini with the idea when he was in the second year of the MBBS programme at AIIMS. Munjal, astonishingly for a product of the online age, has stepped down as CEO of his Bengaluru start-up, and put the proceeds from the sale of his company at the disposal of unacademy.in.

“My focus is on making quality education accessible,” says Saini, “and I think the offline mode is not the way to achieve it.” He reckons that there is a massive need for technological intervention due to paucity of infrastructure and human resources to meet the demand of millions. “That is why I decided to pursue full-time the concept of Unacademy,” he reasons.


Of course, foregoing an IAS future was not as easy as stating a vision, and Saini certainly went through an internal churn. It didn’t help that his father, an engineer, and brother, a paediatrician, weren’t happy that the youngster was chucking a perfectly good “government job with security” to pursue a dream. They hadn’t complained when he decided to discard the stethoscope for grimy files, but this wasn’t the better alternative. Personally too, it wasn’t an easy decision. “I had dedicated two years to prepare for the civil service exams,” says Saini. “There were many factors were involved, so I consulted.

Please do Support his website and Share his work all round:

https://unacademy.in/

Support his Youtube Channel and Share it:

https://www.youtube.com/user/unacademy

Also, to the people who are criticising this step by saying that he has wasted government money or he is just a spoilt person or this is nonsensical and he is looking to earn through youtube, stop being cynical and try to imagine the thought process this person must have gone through while taking this decision. It's not something we normally hear. People probably envy Roman Saini for his courage to follow his heart and doing the things which are right according to him and not looking at social norms or people who are ready to judge him for his every action before taking any decision.

#ISupportUnacademyIn 2011, Gaurav Munjal, whom I have known since school as the closest friend called and spoke about...
Posted by Roman Saini on Saturday, January 9, 2016