Sheikh Jahangir (48) has made a painting device that can be easily mounted on a two-wheeler scooter and carried to a customer’s place. Deriving power from the two-wheeler’s engine to run the compressor, this device lends flexibility of usage to the painter. Jahangir has been running a small spray painting shop, ‘Khandesh Spray Painters’ in Jalgaon for the past eighteen years. He has ten dependents in his family, his eight children, wife and his mother.
He was born at Vijaynagar in Chennai district of Tamil Nadu. His father was a painter by profession. Jahangir has six sisters and two brothers. At the age of six, he was sent to his aunt’s house at Malkapur (Dist. Buldhana, Maharashtra). There he started his school education. But poor economic condition of his aunt forced him to go to the forests to graze animals and earn something to supplement the family income. Because of this, he could not study beyond second standard.
