United with family, Mumbai youth talks about journey as a truck driver

United with family after three years runaway youth talks about journey as a truck driver cleanerIts like a Diwali post Diwali in Airoli as the son who ran away from home three years ago was reunited with his family on Tuesday Aniket Bangar was barely 17 when he fled from home fearing retribution for failing in two subjects in his engineering course But stronger today both mentally and physically the 20yearold realises that all his father wanted for him was his happinessAniket Bangars display pic on WhatsApp which helped trace himThe journeyAfter securing distinction in SSC Aniket decided to study mechanical engineering and took admission at the Bharatiya Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in Kharghar Speaking to midday Aniket shared Today I realise that my father never scolded or discouraged me It was my decision to take up engineering after the SSC All he ever did was to encourage me to pursue whatever I wanted to in life and be successful in it During the first year of engineering in the second semester I got ATKT in two subjects Even then my father didnt scold me He only asked me to work harder on the weak subjects I managed to clear the KT papers But in the second year in the third semester two exams ndash math and computer science ndash didnt go as per my expectations On December 6 2014 I checked my results online to find that I had indeed failed in math and computer I was scared that my father would definitely lose his temper this time so I fledGorakh his father is into transport business which seems to have influenced some of Anikets aspirations as a teenager Aniket reached Nhava Sheva in Navi Mumbai in search of work At 17 all that I had in mind was that I couldnt return home I needed to prove to my father or maybe just to myself that I could take a decision and honour it I wanted to earn a living buy a truck some dayThe teenager met a truck driver who offered him a job as a cleaner I travelled to PuneNagpurand various other places with this truck driver After a year I sought the help of a government agent to procure a licence and made my Aadhaar card too I earned between R20000 to R25000 per month but I tried to save at least Rs 10000 every month In the last three years I have saved up R25 lakhSubinspector Sanjay Kshirsagar of the AntiHuman Trafficking Cell that traced him to the Kalamboli branch of a transport company said that initially Aniket was reluctant to return home But it was a Tuesday full of joyful tears when Aniket was reunited with his family We all cried for 15 minutes I guess God wasnt ready to separate me from my parents Aniket saidAfter he was reunited with his parents on TuesdayFamily overwhelmedSince Tuesday numerous friends and relatives of the Bangar family have dropped by to meet Aniket Gorakh joked We are unable to shut the doors of our house On a more serious note he said Its yet to sink in that Aniket is back among us We had almost lost hope of finding himThe manhuntWe covered the entire state ofMaharashtra before we chanced upon a UP youth Prasad Ghad who said he knew someone by the name of Aniket Patil who spoke fluent Marathi He showed us the WhatsApp photo of the Aniket he knew which we immediately shared with Gorakh who confirmed that it was his son With Ghads help we traced Aniket to Jyoti Roadlines at Kalamboli Kshirsagar saidToday Aniket says hes strong enough to accept his own failures But I am ready to fight to live better I will take admission in the engineering course again and complete my studies I want to become an engineer now and I will