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Months after Maha Kumbh, 2 elderly men reunited with kin
Prayagraj: After a gap of more than three months following the culmination of Maha Kumbh volunteers of the Lost & Found camp, popularly known as 'Bhoole Bhatke Shivir', managed to reunite two elderly men with their families.
On Sunday, Nar Singh Murti, aged 68, who went missing from mela campus on Feb 28, was reunited with his family in the village of Nagli in Chikmagalur district of Karnataka on Sunday. Family members of Murti said that some volunteers spotted him while roaming in Mumbai and talked to him in Kanaada language. When Murti revealed his village name, the volunteers took him to his native town and handed over to the family.
Similarly, 54-year-old Madhav Prasad Shukla, who also went missing on Feb 7 on mela campus, was reunited with his family on May 15 in Kanpur district.
Shukla was a resident of Pandit Ka Pura village (Lalganj) in Pratapgarh district.
"We were in constant touch with family members of missing persons post-Maha Kumbh and volunteers acted upon minute information," said Tiwari, adding, "Volunteers, along with family members of missing Madhav Prasad Shukla, received information that he was in a village about 80 km from Kanpur district and rushed to reunite him with the family on May 15," added Tiwari.
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Organiser of Bhoole Bhatke Shivir, Umesh Tiwari, told TOI, "Two elderly devotees, who were lost during the Maha Kumbh were reunited with their families in the past month.
The organisation had a list of five missing persons after the culmination of the Maha Kumbh, whose whereabouts were untraceable. However, despite the end of Kumbh, the volunteers remained active and managed to reunite two of them in the past month." Tiwari, however, said that volunteers are still making efforts to trace whereabouts of three others.
