Kendrapara: An Indian Airforce
staffer of the Bhopal-based Tactical Air Centre gives
financial support to meritorious students of Orissa's
Kendrapara district from his own pocket.
The 26-year-old staffer, Badal Kumar Singh, from Bira
Nilakanthapur under Derabish block in the district provides Rs
100 a month to deserving students of eighth standard.
"I faced financial hurdles during studies. My parents
were from a lower middle class background. I was lucky to
get a job," Singh said.
"Poverty sometimes comes in the way of many
meritorious students. That's why I resolved to take up the
cause of poor students," Singh said.
He said after securing employment in 2004 he founded
the Prativa Samman Trust a year later to help poor students.
"I diverted savings from my salary to the trust. I
used the interest accrued from it for giving scholarships,"
Singh said.
PTI
First Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 16:39
