Admitted in ICU: Widows who have children to raise

Noida: Among the eight employees of Motherson Sumi Systems who were seriously injured in the accident are two widows who started working after their husbands died and they needed to support the education of their children.
Seema (35) and Premlata (28) are admitted to the ICU of Kailash Hospital in Sector 27. While Premlata’s brother came to see her sister in the evening, Seema lay in her bed without anyone from her family.
Premlata’s brother Yashpal Singh told TOI that her only son, Hrithik Chauhan, studies in Class IV. “Her husband Dharmendra Chauhan died three years ago. Since then, she has been working day in and day out to support Hrithik’s education,” he said.
Seema Pal, a mother of two daughters, is a resident of Dadri. Ruma Devi, whose daughter Yogesh Kumari was injured in the accident, said Seema’s husband died about five years ago and she stayed with her children in the same neighbourhood as her. “She supports her children, but her family does not stay with her,” Ruma said.
Ruma, who was waiting outside the ICU of Kailash Hospital for her daughter Yogesh, is a widow too. She said that after her husband, Shivram, died in an accident four years ago, her daughter was left with little choice but to work. “I have a son who is still in school. Yogesh would take care of our finances,” Ruma said.
Naina (21), who has been working with Motherson for the past two years, has to help her father earn some money and raise her five siblings. While her elder sister Geeta is married, her elder brother Rohit is studying. Her father Rajbhar said Naina had suffered a serious head injury and was in the ICU.
Roshni (22), a Class XII passout, earns Rs 8,000 a month. “She usually boards the bus around 5.10am from Dadri railway station. We got to know about the accident from the family of another girl, Pooja,” he said.
Her father Satish Chand said that she was helping him raise her younger sister, who is still in school.