600 KMS IN 9 DAYS: AMID LOCKDOWN, 11-YEAR-OLD BOY GETS PARENTS HOME BY PEDALLING TRICYCLE CART

An 11-year-old boy, Tabaarak, pedelled a tricycle cart for nine consecutive days to transport his parents from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to their village in Bihar covering a distance of around 600 kilometers.

As per a report by The Wire, Tabaarak's mother had been blinded in an injury while his father has a fractured leg. He has five siblings. The family is landless and lives in a hut establised on someone else's land in a village in Bihar's Araria.

Israfil, the boy's father, used to work in marble shop in Varanasi. He had met with an accident which left his leg fractured. Tabaarak and his mother left for Varanasi after learning about the accident. They reached there before the lockdown and have been stranded since then.

"My wife and son had visited me just before lockdown. We ran out of food. I have a tricycle cart, so we started the journey thinking that we are dying here (in Varanasi) anyway. But, god and the people we met on the way helped us reach home safely," Israfil told The Wire.

Tabaarak and Israfil are now at a quarantine facility near their village. His mother is at home as there is no separate arrangement for women at the centre.

Meanwhile, RJD MLA Shahnawaz Alam has promised that he will help the  family. “I will meet them once they are out of quarantine. I will ensure that they get work in Araria itself and don’t go back to Varanasi for livelihood and relive those days of hardship," he told The Wire.

Picture Credits: The Wire