Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Visually-challenged Bhawanipatna boy traced at Jatni

The Pioneer, Jan 25, 2011
PNS, BHAWANIPATNA

A 13-year-old hostel inmate of the Red Cross School for the Blind here was found after three days of his missing by an NGO Padmashree Society of Jatni in Khurda district on Thursday.

The visually-challenged student Debasish Panda was reportedly missing in the melee at the LBS Stadium here on the concluding day of the Kalahandi Utsav Ghumura on Monday while thousands of people were enjoying the Utsav, the police said.

According to reports, out of the total 36 hostel inmates, the concerned guardian had taken 13 students for a visit to the Utsav and Debasish went missing unfortunately.

The police said, after getting the information that the Khurda-based NGO had found the partially-blind boy and the NGO wanted to have his identification by his family members, the police then sent for his father, a resident of Nuapada district, and sent him to Khurda accompanied by a cop for his identification and to bring him back here.

However, the detailed information would be available after a thorough enquiry was made with the boy as to how he landed at Khurda from Bhawanipatna, Town IIC Haresh Pandey told the media.

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