Santosh Valmiki

Born in a very poor scavenger family. Mother cleaned the utensils and worked in different house and so brought us up. For better upbringing admitted in the school with the help of government scholarship and the mother's struggle studied. To help mother did sweeping on the road and collected dirt from gutters. Thereafter did High school and Intermediate with second division as pavement dweller and worked as hawker. In the mean time interest in writing. Stories and poems for children had beer published in the weekly magazine of "Swatantra Bharat", "Navjeevan and "Amrit Prabhat" Stories and poems have been broadcast and telecas from AIR and Doordarshan.

Graduated from Lucknow University and then Indian institute of Mass Communication New Delhi in the year 1989 as the best trainee in Hindi Journalism Diploma Course Awarded "Indian Institute of Mass Communication Awarded* by Union Minister K R Narayan research by bureau of parliamentary Studies and training. Lok Sabha Secretary New Delhi practical training in Hindi news unit of Navbharat times New Delhi and All India Radio in the workshop of trainee Journalist based on parliamentary procedure held by 28 April 1989 to 28 April 1989.