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| Samhitha handing over cheque worth of Rs 5,000 to the Minister for Secondary Education D Manikyavara Prasad for the purpose of feeding for poor students at Anganwadi centers |
``We should not wash off our hands after garlanding the statues of our father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on occasion of Independence day and our first Prime Minister `Chacha' Nehru on Children's day. We have to follow their ideologies to make our democratic country a super power Bharath. Together we strive and together we thrive. All politicians should stop calling for bandhs and harthals, which cripple normal life, even affects children at Anganwadi centres in the state.''
This speech was not delivered by a politician or a social worker. This was the sweet words of a nine-year girl who addressed a gathering standing in front of two cabinet ministers at children day celebration held in Ravindra Bharathi.
Emphasizing the disadvantages of calling for bandhs and harthals by politicians for their `political' benefits, the girl, Samhitha Kasibhatta, drew the attention of all dignitaries on the dais and gathering including VVIPs, bureaucrats and other childrens talking on the topic of `bandh.' Later, she handed over a cheque of Rs 5,000 for Chief Minister's relief fund for the purpose of feeding children staying in state run anganwadi centers during bandhs in the state.
``I know how children suffer due to lack of food during the bandhs. Transportation is affected badly and normal life is paralysed. I am giving Rs 5,000, which I saved from my pocket money for the CM's relief fund for the purpose of feeding the children in anganwadi centres,'' said Samhitha.
Samhitha is a class IV stuident of Nalanda Vidya Bhavan located at Motinagar. She said that she has decided to help students when she visited nearby anganwadi centre along with her classmates when her school was forced to close for a day as a political party gave a call for a bandh. ``As my school was closed, I went to an anganwadi centre but number of children staying in the centre suffered due to lack of food. Then, I decided to help them and started saving my pocket money for them,'' Samhitha told the Express after her thought-provoking speech on the dais.
The star speaker, Samhitha, also got a lot of appluase from a former President and also the present President earlier. Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam lauded her when she presented a 16-pages write up on solar system at a tender age of 5 years. She also obtained encouragement from the first woman president Pratibha Patil for her article and drawing on terrorism. ``I want to become a scientist in aeronautics to innovate more in the field,'' she added.
This speech was not delivered by a politician or a social worker. This was the sweet words of a nine-year girl who addressed a gathering standing in front of two cabinet ministers at children day celebration held in Ravindra Bharathi.
Emphasizing the disadvantages of calling for bandhs and harthals by politicians for their `political' benefits, the girl, Samhitha Kasibhatta, drew the attention of all dignitaries on the dais and gathering including VVIPs, bureaucrats and other childrens talking on the topic of `bandh.' Later, she handed over a cheque of Rs 5,000 for Chief Minister's relief fund for the purpose of feeding children staying in state run anganwadi centers during bandhs in the state.
``I know how children suffer due to lack of food during the bandhs. Transportation is affected badly and normal life is paralysed. I am giving Rs 5,000, which I saved from my pocket money for the CM's relief fund for the purpose of feeding the children in anganwadi centres,'' said Samhitha.
Samhitha is a class IV stuident of Nalanda Vidya Bhavan located at Motinagar. She said that she has decided to help students when she visited nearby anganwadi centre along with her classmates when her school was forced to close for a day as a political party gave a call for a bandh. ``As my school was closed, I went to an anganwadi centre but number of children staying in the centre suffered due to lack of food. Then, I decided to help them and started saving my pocket money for them,'' Samhitha told the Express after her thought-provoking speech on the dais.
The star speaker, Samhitha, also got a lot of appluase from a former President and also the present President earlier. Former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam lauded her when she presented a 16-pages write up on solar system at a tender age of 5 years. She also obtained encouragement from the first woman president Pratibha Patil for her article and drawing on terrorism. ``I want to become a scientist in aeronautics to innovate more in the field,'' she added.
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