PATNA: ‘Where there is a will there is a way’. This old adage holds true for a 28-year-old specially-abled migrant worker, Praveen Kumar.
Kumar, who worked in a bag manufacturing company at Nizamuddin in New Delhi, reached the state’s border with Uttar Pradesh in Gopalganj district on Sunday after covering a distance of over 950km on his tricycle.
Kumar, a resident of Ghaghri village under Bakhri block in Begusarai district, said, “It took eight days for me to reach Gopalganj. I will depart for my native village in Begusarai district, which is around 250km from here.”
When Kumar reached Agra from New Delhi, he felt tired and exhausted. “For a moment I started thinking that it was my wrong decision and I won’t be able to reach home alive. Then I got inspiration from an elderly woman going back home in Gorakhpur district from the national capital on foot,” he said.
Kumar said though he requested several bus drivers carrying migrant workers and students to help him, none listened.
As luck would have it, Kumar spotted another disabled man from Darbhanga district coming from Mumbai on his motor-fitted tricycle. “It was around 25km from the UP-Bihar border when I met Madan Sah of Darbhanga,” he said.
Both the polio-infected migrant workers started their onward journey on their tricycles after going through mandatory thermo screening at the Gopalganj border check post. “I have been in Mumbai since 2012. But I never faced such a situation. I decided to go back home as it would take time to set the metropolitan city on track,” Sah added.
“Hame conora ne milaya hai. Ye dosti hum kabhi nahi todenge (We have met because of conora. We will never break this friendship),” the duo said.
Kumar, who worked in a bag manufacturing company at Nizamuddin in New Delhi, reached the state’s border with Uttar Pradesh in Gopalganj district on Sunday after covering a distance of over 950km on his tricycle.
Kumar, a resident of Ghaghri village under Bakhri block in Begusarai district, said, “It took eight days for me to reach Gopalganj. I will depart for my native village in Begusarai district, which is around 250km from here.”
When Kumar reached Agra from New Delhi, he felt tired and exhausted. “For a moment I started thinking that it was my wrong decision and I won’t be able to reach home alive. Then I got inspiration from an elderly woman going back home in Gorakhpur district from the national capital on foot,” he said.
Kumar said though he requested several bus drivers carrying migrant workers and students to help him, none listened.
As luck would have it, Kumar spotted another disabled man from Darbhanga district coming from Mumbai on his motor-fitted tricycle. “It was around 25km from the UP-Bihar border when I met Madan Sah of Darbhanga,” he said.
Both the polio-infected migrant workers started their onward journey on their tricycles after going through mandatory thermo screening at the Gopalganj border check post. “I have been in Mumbai since 2012. But I never faced such a situation. I decided to go back home as it would take time to set the metropolitan city on track,” Sah added.
“Hame conora ne milaya hai. Ye dosti hum kabhi nahi todenge (We have met because of conora. We will never break this friendship),” the duo said.
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