Ambani orders free Net for HP man’s kids

Ravinder Sood

Palampur, July 26

India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries Limited has come to the aid of Kuldip Kumar of Gummer village in Jwalamukhi, facilitating online studies of his children.

Ambani has directed Reliance Jio outlet in Kangra to extend free Internet facility to Kuldip’s children. Kumar was forced to sell his cow to buy a smartphone for his kids’ online education.

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The Tribune had highlighted Kuldip’s plight last week, following which people from across the country came forward to help him tide over the situation.

Over Rs 2 lakh has already been deposited in his bank account. An Una NGO said they would provide clothes, bedding and blankets to the family. Civil servants from different states made liberal donations after procuring Kuldip’s bank details from The Tribune on Saturday.

The private school today announced fee waiver for Kuldip’s kids.

Besides India, queries from countries such as France, Canada, Saudi Arabia and the UAE poured in as Kuldip’s story went viral on the Twitter and other social media platforms.

The district administration, on the other hand, is trying to establish whether the man, whose children are studying in a private school, can be treated as poor. Government officials are making enquiries into Kuldip’s finances.

A tehsildar today made enquiries pertaining to the source of the amount being spent by Kuldip on the education of his children, purchase of books and mobile phone.

An inventory of textbooks and Kuldip’s assets was prepared by the tehsildar in the presence of villagers.

In his statement to the tehsildar, Kuldip said he had borrowed Rs 6,000 from two villagers to buy the smartphone and sold his cow to pay back the money.

Romesh Dhawala, senior BJP leader and Jwalamukhi MLA, said: “The administration must reach out to people like Kuldip so that they can get timely help.” He said the money donated to Kuldip with the efforts of The Tribune would be utilised for the construction of his house.

However, the Kangra administration is not ready to admit Kuldip is poor. DC Rakesh Prajapati said he could not be termed “poor” as his children were studying in a private school.