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By K. M. Dayashankar
KARIMNAGAR, JULY 28. It is a dream come true for 11-year-old B Balaraju, who is studying in fifth standard in Vivekananda Vidyanikethan Residential School in Bagathnagar, Karimnagar, with a non-resident Indian (NRI) from the United States of America providing financial assistance for his education. The NRI and Unisofts Systems president, Enugula Srikanth, who is on a vacation in his native Karimnagar, visited the school on Wednesday and took the boy on a shopping spree and provided him with whatever he wanted, including books, dress, pens, playing items and shoes. The poor boy was happiness personified.
`No' to drudgery
Balaraju, a resident of naxalite-affected Gatlanarsingapur village of Bheemadevarapalli mandal, who was made to work as cattleherd because of poverty, ran away from the village by boarding a bus to Karimnagar. After landing in Karimnagar bus-stand, he did not know what to do and was crying in a corner. The beat constables noticed the boy and took him to the police station. The one-town SI, A. Mahesh, inquired about him and, through the Husnabad police, informed the boy's parents of the matter. When the parents visited the police station, he refused to go along with them, saying he would be forced to work in the village. Later, the SI joined the boy in the Vivekananda Vidyanikethan residential school in Bagathnagar. The school provided him books, dress and other material for his stay in the hostel and admitted him in third standard.
More of good news
Responding to a news report, which the NRI read in the Internet edition, "When cops step in to change lives'' (published in these columns on December 27 last year), the NRI contacted the then Superintendent of Police, R. S. Praveen Kumar, and promised to provide financial assistance for education of the boy. Accordingly, the NRI had sent Rs 5,000 to the school management through his brother six months ago. Mr. Srikanth visited the school on Wednesday and interacted with the child. Talking to The Hindu , the Software Engineer said he would form a forum in the US with NRIs of Karimnagar and the Telangana region and contribute for poor children's education and other requirements.
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