His family had a debt of , which he had to repay. His family could not afford his higher education, and in 1965 he dropped out of school to join the family business of commission agents and traders who procured and supplied rice to the Food Corporation of India.
His family owed money that needed to be paid back; unfortunately, they couldn’t provide him with higher education. Consequently, in 1965, he left school to work for his family’s commission agent and trader business, which involved procuring and supplying rice to the Food Corporation of India.