Oman industrialist good Samaritan for Vidarbha farm widows
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Nagpur, April 23 (IANS) Widows of Vidarbha farmers who ended their
lives unable to bear the stress of high debt have found a good
Samaritan in an Oman-based industrialist.
Krishnakumar Taori, the
Group Managing Director of Hasan Juma Backer Trading and Contracting Co.
LLC, engaged in mega construction projects in Oman, has come to the
rescue of the distressed community of eastern Maharashtra.
Taori,
who was born to a cotton farmer in a remote village Ghuikhed in
Yavatmal, travelled last week to Pandharkavada and distributed token
relief to widows and orphans.
“He distributed saris and blankets
to 200 widows in the village, plus Rs.1,000 cash per family which lost
its breadwinner to the spate of suicides in the region,” Kishore Tiwari
of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS) told IANS here Monday.
Taori
also agreed to bear the actual costs of vocational and academic
education for the orphans from the village by way of fees and
educational material, Tiwari added.
Saddened by the plight of his
erstwhile native region, Taori, who earned his engineering degree from
Nagpur, will return next week to finalise plans to set up a technical
institute in his native village, Ghuikhed, he said.
“Taori will
hold meetings with government and other officials to hammer out the
modalities for setting up an ITI in this area which would immensely
benefit the young population, especially the orphans.”
Explaining
Taori’s largesse, Tiwari said he (Taori) was deeply disturbed by the
spate of farmland suicides which have continued unabated in Vidarbha
since the past few years.
“Accordingly, he decided to take the
first step and distributed the token aid in memory of his mother,
Kamlabai Taori to the widows of Pandharkavada village,” Tiwari said.
Since
the past five years, Taori is engaged in providing free education to
tribal children of the backward Melghat in Amravati district through the
Eklavya Vidyalaya of Vanvasi Kalyanashram.
According to Tiwari,
Taori now wants to increase his social presence by taking up the
responsibility to educate the orphans, especially girls, to make them
economically independent.
