Gujarat diamond merchant, Savji Dholakia whose company’s yearly turn over is Rs. 1,025 crores has sent his son Dickensian adventures to know the value of money. Dravya Dholika, son of business man worked odd jobs in Kochi, ranging from working in a shoe shop to McDonalds. The royal family undertook the exercise due to a ‘family tradition’ that began 12 years ago.
“I gave him three conditions: I told my son that he needs to work to earn his money and he couldn’t work at a place for more than a week; that he can’t use his father’s identity nor use the mobile phone nor the Rs 7,000 taken from home for a month. I wanted him to understand life and how the poor struggle to get a job and money. No university can teach you these life skills except experience,” said his father, Savji Dholakia, who had made headlines earlier after his firm gifted cars and flats to his employees as bonus.
Dravya said, “I never worried about money and here I was struggling to get a meal worth Rs 40. I needed another Rs 250 per day to stay in a lodge,” said Dravya, who lied to his employers that he is a class XII student born in a poor farmer’s family in Gujarat.
