The unprecedented success of Rugmark also rested upon Kailash’s firm ideology that his fight was not against any specific industry or individual, but was against the larger crime and evil of child slavery.
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At the age of 26, Kailash gave up a promising job as an electrical engineer and devoted his life to try and fight child slavery in India. Since his childhood, Kailash had always questioned the wrong and unjust. One of the most significant marches was Shiksha Yatra (the Education March) in 2001 to mobilise mass support to bring about a constitutional amendment making free quality education a fundamental right in India.