Dhanbad: As the world celebrated International Father’s Day on Sunday, BCCL officer, Dev Kumar Verma, recalled the childhood lesson of his father, a fourth-grade employee of the same company. Dev Kumar operates three schools in Katras area of Dhanbad imparting free education to coal picker children. His father donated his ancestral house at Katras to launch the first school.
Verma posted at BCCL headquarters in Koylabhavan said, “I owe the sensitivity towards economically deprived section of society to my father’s lessons who before joining the service as a fourth-grade employee in BCCL in 1997 used to operate a betel shop in Katras and faced s lot of difficulty in educating five children including me, my two younger brothers and two sisters but never missed an opportunity to help others.”
“I established the first free of cost school, ‘Pathshala’ in Katras Bazar in 2015 in my ancestral house given to us by our father for launching the educational initiative and then launched two other branches of Pathshala at Premnagar Katras and Bhagabasti Katras in August 2018 and December 2018”, he added.
Moreover, Verma’s philanthropism is not confined to coal picker children’s education as he recently provided food grains and other help to two international women footballers of Dhanbad including, Sangeeta Soren,20 of Bansmuri village of Baghmara and Asha Kumari,21 of Topchachi, who were compelled to work in brick kilns and fields facing penury due to the lockdown.
