Promise fulfilled: Bahrain gives Rs 9L to Odisha man who carried wife's body

September 16, 2016

New Delhi, Sep 16: The Kingdom of Bahrain on Thursday offered a red carpet welcome and donated Rs 8.87 lakh to a Odisha tribal who was forced to carry his wife's body for nearly 12 km, en route to his village, after she died at a hospital last month.

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A video of Dana Manjhi walking with a wailing daughter and wife's body over his shoulder after help eluded him went viral last month, sparking national outrage.

The video caught the attention of the international media too. Moved by the plight, Bahrain prime minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa offered help to Manjhi, who received the cheque at the country's embassy here.

An illiterate marginal farmer from Kalahandi district, Manjhi has so far been struggling to earn  Rs 2,000 a month and has never even visited Bhubaneswar.

“I have never visited New Delhi or Bhubaneswar. I do not know who donated the money. But I was told, after seeing my plight, the Bahrain Prince gave me the money,” he said. The flood of donations and the near-celebrity status has left him bemused.

Dressed in a wrinkled shirt and a dhoti, Manjhi told reporters: “I don't know how many zeros are there in nine lakh. I will educate them (daughters). They should have a better life. If I had the money, I would not have suffered this much.”

Reports stated that the Odisha government has issued a work order worth Rs 75,000 under the Indira Awas Yojana and has alloted a plot.

While the state government has also promised to bear the cost of educating his daughters, the Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), too, promised free education to Manjhi's children.

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Mohammed SS
 - 
Sunday, 18 Sep 2016

Masha Allah H.H. Khalifa, Another big slap to our great Modi this is the real face of India, Shame ...Shame...!!!!

Tahera Chaudhary
 - 
Saturday, 17 Sep 2016

Muslims especially wealthy Arab Muslims must keep doing work like these throughout the world to subside the anger of Allah the God almighty. Muslims are supposed to spend and help with their time and money for the welfare and establishing justice and peace for all.

shanu
 - 
Friday, 16 Sep 2016

No single penny from cheddis ....shame on you monkeys....
running behind only cow mootra nayi koli and ili.... what about human being ......

Mashalla H.H Khalifa.... real king and thank you for highlights you made him world famous .....not like feku modi amith shah or pramod mutalik..

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