Haryana minister gets kids of UP labourers admitted to school

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Press Trust of India Rohtak
Last Updated : May 10 2017 | 9:32 PM IST
Taking note of a social media post, Haryana minister OP Dhankar today got 11 children of migrant labourers admitted to a school here.
He also promised that the state government will bear the educational expenses of the children.
On March 12, one Sombir wrote on Facebook about how a few migrant labourers from Uttar Pradesh were insisting that their children assisted them in the fields as they could not afford to pay for their education.
The labourers belong to Lakhimpur and Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh and have been working in Chuliyana village in the district for a long time.
Taking note of the Facebook post, Dhankar convinced the labourers to get their children -- 11 in all -- admitted to the Government Senior Secondary School in the village.
Books and other study material were provided to the children -- Priyanka, Kuldeep, Shyamu, Anju, Devki, Mohit, Sundri (Class I), Deepak (Class II), Preeti (Class III), Shivani and Shani (Class IV).
The minister urged the migrant labourers working in the state to get their children admitted to schools, instead of forcing them to do farm work.

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First Published: May 10 2017 | 9:32 PM IST

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