Ajay Kumar & Aman Kumar, aged 20 & 19 years respectively, hail from Sanghani, a remote hilly village in Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh where they live with their parents and a sister. The family of five owns a small apple orchard. The income from this orchard farm is insufficient to meet the needs of the family, so the mother takes up sewing work regularly to provide support. With the meagre income through these sources, the family somehow managed to educate all the three children.
Both Ajay & Aman studied from a nearby senior secondary school and graduated from a college at Chamba which is far from their village. While pursuing graduation, Ajay and Aman started preparing for competitive exams as they want to earn and extend their support to the family's financial situation. When Indian Army announced the Agniveer Scheme, both of them got interested in it but were unaware of the application and selection process.
They came to know about GMRVF run Saraswati Pratibha Library-cum-Career Counselling Center at Chamba. The Pratibha program aims at providing counselling and coaching support to the youth who are aspiring for government jobs. Both the brothers enrolled and benefitted from the coaching classes offered at the Library. The classes at the Center were conducted as per the Agniveer exam syllabus along with regular mock tests. Ajay and Aman cleared all stages of the selection process with the support of Pratibha faculty.
Currently, both the brothers have completed their training and are posted as Agniveers in Leh. Not just their family, but the entire village is proud of these boys to be selected in the Indian army.