MLA heeds girl's request to repair her house
Mangaluru: MLA Ashok Kumar Rai, Puttur, responded to a 10-year-old girl's plea to repair her house.
While returning from the inauguration of a concrete road at Santyar Kallakatte in Aryapu village on Sunday evening, Rai asked the driver to stop his vehicle when he saw a girl standing on the road.
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"Ashokanna, our house is leaking. We cannot sleep in the house, and it is difficult for me to study. You need to help us to repair our house," Deepashree, a Class V student at Santyar Govt Higher Primary School, requested the MLA. She had been waiting on the road for him to return from the function.
Rai asked where her house was, and called the local booth president of Congress to get details. The MLA discovered that Deepashree's father was a poor labourer and belonged to a Dalit family. "I understood that the family's house leaked every monsoon. I assured the family to put a new roof on their house and solve the problem. I also assured her help if she wished to study in a hostel and promised to provide books too," the MLA added.
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