Tripura CM sends study table, food, medicines after girl seeks help on Facebook
Press Trust of India | June 5, 2021 | 05:40 PM IST | 2 mins read
Deb, after coming across her messages, immediately asked officials to extend all possible help to her.
AGARTALA: Barsha Das, a student of Class 8 at a school near here, is on cloud nine as Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, taking a note of her request on Facebook, has sent her a study table, medicines for her ailing mother, and packets of food items.
Addressing the chief minister, Das recently posted a video, where she said that her family of four lives in a makeshift single room, and she cannot afford a study table. In yet another message earlier this week, the 14- year-old girl said that her mother was down with COVID-19, and the family needs food and medicine.
Deb, after coming across her messages, immediately asked officials to extend all possible help to her, according to a source in the government. Shortly after, on Friday, she received a study table, food packets and medicines at her Maheshkhala home, on the outskirts of Agartala, the source said.
Das, when contacted by PTI, said, "I am touched by the chief minister's gesture. He gave me a study table, food, and medicines for my mother, who has recently tested positive for COVID-19. My father doesn't earn much, and we are always reeling under financial crisis. This aid sent by our CM will definitely solve some of our problems."
Her father Uttam Das, who works at a private firm, said he was not aware that her daughter had sought help from the chief minister. "I was awestruck when a few men from the Chief Minister's Office arrived at our home with a study table for my daughter, medicine for my wife, groceries and food packets. I can't thank the CM enough," he stressed.
Sanjay Mishra, the chief minister's media adviser, said Deb is "very active" on social media, as he believes it to be an effective channel to reach out to people. "This is not the first time that the CM has responded to any request on social media. Earlier, too, he had arranged for aid and extended help to people after coming across such messages on these networking platforms," Mishra added.
Write to us at news@careers360.com .
Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..
To get in touch, write to us at news@careers360.com.
Next Story
]Featured News
]- CISCE schools can continue to teach foreign languages as 3rd option: Board secretary
- BBAU Lucknow student’s death sparks protests against hostel food, curfew; proctor denies link
- Fees to social media-use: What NCAHP’s first ethics code for allied, healthcare professionals says
- NMC junks 150-seat MBBS cap, population rule; sets 10 km limit for medical college-hospital distance
- ‘Not just academic, but personal’: NSUT Delhi takes AI beyond BTech, across non-engineering courses
- AI judge, cyber law courses, scholarships: GNLU is revamping LLB degrees to make students courtroom-ready
- CBSE third language policy throws French, Spanish, German teachers across schools into crisis
- With CSE surge, these specialised BTech courses are vanishing from engineering colleges
- Govt school to Glasgow: NIT Agartala civil engineer wins Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
- UGC allows state colleges to seek deemed-university status, become off-campus centres of other institutions