I feel happy to see glow on their faces

A citizen moment from Lucknow

This Citizen Moment is about a sad incident that happened in our Branch.
One of our colleagues died in a fatal road accident. His wife was subsequently appointed in the bank after a sustained persuasion with Bank authorities. After that incident, his wife was afraid of making any journey. She did not even avail her LFC but years later, after lot of persuasion by colleagues she once became ready to avail journey to a hill station with her daughters. But her fear came true and she met with a serious fatal accident while performing this lone journey years later leaving behind two small daughters.
Situation was very grim and pathetic as nobody was left behind to take care of the girls, even from the family or relatives. Our branch people were also in a fix and were finding them guilty of persuading them to perform this journey. We, all the colleagues in branch, were much worried. Without wasting time, we decided to help that ill-fated family. I took the lead and decided to first arrange for schooling of the girls.
I immediately contacted the school authorities and told them the plight of the family. They also became sympathetic and with the help of my colleagues I first arranged boarding of the girls in a reputed girl’s school at Lucknow. The Principal was kind enough to extend all possible care and help.
I appealed all the branch staff to donate generously to form corpus fund to meet the current and future financial needs of those girls. I still feel emotional to remember the overwhelming response of our staff members. We collected more than Rs2 lac which was deposited as a long term FDR, the interest of which is accepted as school fee of the girls. In this way, we arranged for their schooling and managed their school fees etc.
Both the girls are studying well in their school. I often go to school to attend their functions and to ensure whether their education and other expenses are met comfortably or not. I feel very happy to see a glow on their faces and especially when they are appreciated from their teachers. It is extremely fulfilling moment for me when I recall that I could do little for those ill-fated girls who lost their parents.

K.K.Singh
Lucknow Main Branch