Karnataka girl offers savings to CM: A seven-year-old girl, Dhavani N from Karnataka recently offered her savings to the Chief Minister of the State, Basavaraj Bommai, for fixing the potholes in the city of Bengaluru, the State's capital.
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In the video shared four days ago, Dhavani N made this offer exactly after two years after her mother's accident, who suffered from a fracture in her leg due to a pothole. The seven-year-old's mother Rekha told TOI, "Dhavani was a child then and did not understand the situation much. As she grew up, she saw many of her friends and family members turning victims due to such accidents."
Dhavani is studying in Class two at Hegganahalli Government School in Bengaluru.
The daughter of construction labourers from Tumakuru district's Tiptur, sent the appeal as she was distraught by a recent incident involving a pothole. In West Bengaluru, a 65-year-old specially-abled man died after his customised wheelchair overturned because of a crater.
In the video, Dhavani is seen consoling the families who have lost their loved ones to accidents caused by potholes. She said, "Grandpa (referring to the CM), please tell us how will these families cope with their deaths?"
The inspiration for the video came to Dhavani after she came across a video of a little girl fil potholes in a foreign country. The child, after watching the video, told her parents Rekha and Naveen Kumar that they should do the same and that is why she asked the CM to repair the potholes.
The money that Dhavani offered to the CM comes from all the pocket money she got from her parents to buy chocolates which she chose to save it instead. Dhavani, who wants to become the President of India when she grows up, intends to provide free housing for everyone. She further said that her father gives he Rs. 1 every time she drinks water as she suffers from dehydration, she saved this money too.
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According to Dhavani, she has been drinking 10 glasses of water over four days and saved Rs. 40 for the fund.
According to the news report, CM Bommai in September this year announced that the Karnataka Government in the last five years have spent Rs 20, 060 crore in various road works in the city of Bengaluru city alone. This includes repairing potholes too. The opposition had asked the government's response on the city's deteriorating road conditions and PR Ramesh, the Congress MLC, called it, "looting public money."
Similar incidents
- In April 2020, when the government opened funds for public contribution to deal with the deadly COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting lockdown,two girls from Ranchi, five-year-old- Shreyanshi and 8-year-old Priyanshi, donated Rs. 2,440 to fight the COVID-19 outbreak.
- It is not always by monetary contributions that little kids show their compassion, a 6-year-old Kashmiri girl forced the government to look at the plight of children's education during the COVID-19 pandemic. All she did was post a video on social media which went viral and made the school education department lighten the burden of homework on school-going children.
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