Kids Land In Police Station. It’s Good News

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    • Publish Date: Nov 27 2018 3:36PM
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    • Updated Date: Nov 27 2018 3:36PM
Kids Land In Police Station. It’s Good News

 It is a police station so you aren’t expected to see so many children around. But there they were on Monday morning at Rohini South police station, their first ever gathering there overseen by inspector Jagminder Singh, the station house officer, and, of course, their tutor Sandeep Bohat. On Tuesday morning, when the kids go back to their unusual classroom, there will be books for each student, a whiteboard and furniture waiting for them.


The story of why they are at a police station goes back a year. It was then that 20-yearold Bohat stepped into the lives of 40 slum children and started teaching them for free in a park in Rohini. TOI- reported on this brave effort on October 29, and several people stepped forward with help. Among them was inspector Singh, who offered them a room in the police station for classes.


The immediate fallout of this kindly act is the possibility of more girls attending classes. Their parents were reluctant to send them to the open-air classes for safety reasons, but what could be safer than a police station!


An overwhelmed Bohat said he never thought so many people would agree to help when he began his mission. He had passed a girl defecating in the open and it struck him that he should do something about the wretched condition of the slum children. He not only started tutoring them, but also got two toilets constructed for the use of the slum’s women.


Bohat understands the privations of life in a slum household. A sweeper’s son, he faced the same financial constraints when it came to education. So when he got the chance to attend a government school in Rohini Sector 3, he grabbed it with both hands. He completed his graduation from the School of Open Learning.

“The children’s parents express their gratitude and offer me whatever fee they can afford, but I refuse to accept anything,” the youth said. “I will think of my fees being paid in full the day my work enables these kids to help others in need.”

He doesn’t seek instant gratification, perhaps because he knows perseverance pays. Bohat daily saved a tiny sum, Rs 10 at most, to be able to build the two toilets. In turn he also inspired Ankit, a colony resident, to utilise his birthday party budget to instead build a toilet for a family with three women and a disabled man.

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Rajath.K.Patil Kulkarni ST.MARY''S CONVENT & PUBLIC SCHOOL (STATE &

This great effort by the tutor Sandeep bohat is really commendable. If many such Indians develop such feelings, India could soon achieve 100% literacy as illiteracy is more evident among children in the slums...

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