"Earlier I worked for five years as a sweeper of the Corporation, but in 2005 I was given the job of spraying disinfectants in drains which I have been doing for the past ten years," said the 1987 gold medalist and 1992 silver medalist of the National Boxing Championship.
"It is difficult to run a family of six including a brother suffering from tubercolosis with the paltry sum of Rs 232 a day," said Rout who was the winner of the West Bengal State Open Lalchand Rai Memorial Boxing Championship under 40kg in 1987 improving his runner-up position in the same championship in 1985.
"I hope nobody who has a dream suffers like me in life," Rout said.
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