So he kept on pursuing his idea. And today he is proud of his achievements. KIIT University today is among the 15 best universities in India and is ranked 4th best among the self-financed universities by independent surveys made by reputed agencies. Over the years it has spread its wings to have almost every branch of technical and professional courses in its portfolio. Starting from engineering, MCA, MBA, it added programmes like Rural Management, Law, Bio-technology, medical sciences, nursing, dental sciences, fashion technology, film and media sciences, sculpture studies, humanities, languages, yoga and spiritual studies to its fold in a short span of 15 years.

But his passion, close to his heart, has been KISS (Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences), established in 1993 as a small school within KIIT premises for providing free education to tribals with free lodging and boarding facilities. This fledging school has now grown into mammoth tribal residential school providing free education from Kindergarten to Post-Graduation (KG 2 PG), free lodging and boarding with all modern amenities and state-of-the-art campus to over 20,000 children and youth belonging to the poorest-of-the-poor indigenous tribal communities.

His vision is to provide quality education and opportunity to the poorest indigenous tribal children for their all round development and empowering them with vocations and skills in life so that they can live harmoniously with mainstream communities in world. And the achievements of these students have already vindicated his firm philosophy that given a proper opportunity, a poor student can perform at par with those from privileged background.

Indeed a true practitioner of AoL!