A leading non-government organisation (NGO), Sulabh International, has decided to give Rs 3 lakh in August this year to Kalawati Bandurkar, the Maharashtra-based widow with nine children whose grim plight was narrated by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in the Parliament.
The NGO, which has done some major work in the area of sanitation, has decided to adopt Kalawati.She will get Rs 25,000 per month for the next 20 years from the Patna-headquartered voluntary organisation. “Rs 300,000 is what amounts to a year’s payment to Kalawati, and we have decided to give this money to her in August.We will get an account opened in her name in the nearest branch of a nationalised bank,” Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International said.He said his organisation would put Rs 3.3 million in her account some time next year as a fixed deposit, which will give her Rs 25,000 per month as interest for the next 19 years.
Kalawati’s family has been in dire straits after her farmer-husband committed suicide three years ago in his village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra.
Rahul Gandhi referred to two poor families of Shashi Kala and Kalawati in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in his speech during the trust vote in the Lok Sabha on July 22.Stating that there was no electricity in the duo’s houses, Gandhi sought to link the power situation in the country, especially in rural areas, with poverty alleviation and the need for nuclear energy.Kalawati, with seven daughters and two sons, was left with a nine-acre plot of farmland, which she used for cultivating cotton and soybean, according to Gandhi.As Vidarbha region has been in the grip of prolonged drought, Kalawati, like many others, did not find the output from her land enough to take care of her family.
The NGO, which has done some major work in the area of sanitation, has decided to adopt Kalawati.She will get Rs 25,000 per month for the next 20 years from the Patna-headquartered voluntary organisation. “Rs 300,000 is what amounts to a year’s payment to Kalawati, and we have decided to give this money to her in August.We will get an account opened in her name in the nearest branch of a nationalised bank,” Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh International said.He said his organisation would put Rs 3.3 million in her account some time next year as a fixed deposit, which will give her Rs 25,000 per month as interest for the next 19 years.
Kalawati’s family has been in dire straits after her farmer-husband committed suicide three years ago in his village in Yavatmal district of Maharashtra.
Rahul Gandhi referred to two poor families of Shashi Kala and Kalawati in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in his speech during the trust vote in the Lok Sabha on July 22.Stating that there was no electricity in the duo’s houses, Gandhi sought to link the power situation in the country, especially in rural areas, with poverty alleviation and the need for nuclear energy.Kalawati, with seven daughters and two sons, was left with a nine-acre plot of farmland, which she used for cultivating cotton and soybean, according to Gandhi.As Vidarbha region has been in the grip of prolonged drought, Kalawati, like many others, did not find the output from her land enough to take care of her family.
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