diff --git a/src/components/data_ingestion.py b/src/components/data_ingestion.py
index d2628a67..40ceb88a 100644
--- a/src/components/data_ingestion.py
+++ b/src/components/data_ingestion.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 import os
 import sys
+
+# Add the project directory to sys.path
+sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '../..')))
+
 from src.exception import CustomException
 from src.logger import logging
 import pandas as pd