Hailing from a small, nondescript village in rural Andhra Pradesh, Srikanth Bolla has faced adversities and overcome challenges which few others can imagine. Born blind to poor, uneducated parents, Srikanth has faced immense opposition and struggle early in life, but the challenges made him grow up to be a strong, trailblazing visionary. The very village that Srikanth was born in advised his parents to let him die as a baby. However, his parents were very compassionate and kind and brought him up with a lot of love and care.
Srikanth always had bigger dreams and aspired for much more than what others expected of him. He not only cleared his tenth and twelfth standard exams with flying colours but also managed to be the first international blind student to study at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Apart from academics, he excelled at national level blind cricket, international chess and other sporting events, like baseball and swimming.
In 2012, Srikanth started Bollant Industries, his current organization, which has grown both horizontally and vertically and is valued at approximately Rs 500 crore, has an annual turnover of more than Rs 100 crore, and has 500+ employees.
Bollant was established with the mission of overcoming employment barriers for more than hundred million physically and mentally challenged people, and to provide sustainable and competitive employment to both skilled and unskilled or uneducated Indians.
While being an inspirational figure to the youth and promoting entrepreneurship, Srikanth also currently leads a non-profit called Surge Impact Foundation, as its Director. This organization believes in finding and honing more entrepreneurs like Srikanth to build India into a developed nation.