Four girls, one in class VII, have found a simple but impressive way to say ‘thank you’ to cops on duty here in Daltonganj for enforcing the lockdown.
Two of these girls have come home here from Ranchi and under this lockdown are spending some time for cops in streets as well.
These girls, three of them sisters and one tribal move out in the evening with jeera water, lemon water, cucumber, papaya, water
melon, germinated grams, custard etc which they offer to cops doing duties in the street from Sahitya Samaj chowk to Redma a distance of nearly one and a half kilometer in Daltonganj.
SDPO Sadar Sandip Kumar Gupta said, “An ASI of our has told me these girls come and offer these little but very precious things to us. We are overwhelmed with their sense of love and concern for us.”
Officer in charge of Town police station Anand Kumar Mishra said, “I have also seen these girls doing this great work and this boosts our morale and we believe there is someone who cares for us too.”
One of these 4 girls Mili Sharan said, “One day during this 21day long lock down I saw a couple of policemen taking water from a road side tube well. They cupped their palms to become a glass. This scene touched me like anything.”
“So much of pains for drinking water these cops were undertaking while we were indoors for fear of coronavirus and this feeling swelled in me to do something for them and then I along with my two sisters Isha Sharan and Molly Sharan and Anshu Tirkey decided to pay our thank you and gratitude to the cops on road doing their duties in a very critical time like this” said Mili Sharan.
She said Anshu Tirkey’s mother Vimla Toppo is a senior nurse and she knows too well what it means to be so exposed on roads in times of coronavirus asking people to stay safe.
None of these girls are any graduate rather two of them Isha has just taken her matriculation examination while Molly is in class VII.
Mili and Anshu are still far away from becoming a graduate but their determination, sense of gratitude and concern for men in uniform are in plenty.
Asked if their moms do not ask them not to go out of their houses when streets are so deserted Mili Shraran said, “Our mom and mom of Anshu Tirkey are too helpful. They encourage us. We feel proud of our mom. Our mom helps us with germinated gram. She arranges many of the fruits for us.”
About dad Mili Sharan said “He motivates all four of us. What we do is just a token of our gratitude to the cops.”
A cop on duty who has once received these goodies from these girls said, “ There are many who have no kind words for us and we are held and blamed
if our baton touches anyone’s legs and hands all for their own safety and good to keep them indoors but these girls just feel so good for us and that makes me feel cops are still not any bad.”