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| Acting on ET report, Red Cross forwards blast victim Somi's case for appointment | | ET had highlighted the pathetic life he has been leading for 12 yrs when he lost arms and a foot | | Bharat Bhushan
Jammu, Oct 17: He fell to his knees, closed his eyes and mumbled in praise of God after he got the news that Red Cross had forwarded his case for appointment on compassionate grounds.
The good news, for which he had lost every hope, came to him after 12 years of wait. He was 14 when in a bomb blast, that occurred on January 23, 2001, outside his residence at Kalri in Bhalwal block, he had lost his arms, right foot and a portion of the left thigh muscle.
Though doctors at the premier GMCH hospital here had told the family that they were not sure of his survival, he had miraculously survived the three-limb amputation.
After he was 18, the age when an individual can apply for a Government job in J&K, he hoped that the authorities concerned would help him by providing him a job but his repeated visits to their offices yielded no results. He then stopped visiting them.
Talking to ET, he said, "I feel that a Government job is must for my survival because after my father, who is the only financial help to him, is not around, there will be nobody to look after me."
But he lost all hopes of getting a job when he did not get any response from the administration, which gradually forgot his case and closed the file till a few days back when ET reported in its October 13 issue the pathetic tale of his life that had brought him nothing but miseries.
After going through the newspaper report, a Red Cross team led by Secretary Suresh Sharma visited Somi's house on October 14. The purpose was to find out how Red Cross could help him.
The team spoke to Somi, his wife Bholi and parents, and gathered details of the incident from them. After spending there about half an hour, the team left with an invitation to Somi to visit the Red Cross office at Kachi Chawni here.
Somi called on Sharma in his office this morning and submitted him an application. The latter told ET over phone that his case for a job had been forwarded to Deputy Commissioner, Jammu, for appropriate orders.
Sharma said he would be adjusted in the Child Line Project of Red Cross against an available vacancy.
Since Somi does not have arms, all his works from feeding to cleaning are done by his wife, a divorcee. These works were being done by his mother before he got married last year.
He thanked God when he came to know that Red Cross had forwarded his case for a job to the Deputy Commissioner. He looked happy. |
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