Mumbai RPF reunites Kundapur schoolboy with family


Mumbai, Jul 10 (IANS): Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel deployed on the Konkan Railway reunited a 14-year-old runaway schoolboy with his family, an official said here Wednesday.

Akash, a Class IX student from Karnataka's Kundapur town, was found loitering in a general coach of Poorna Express by some RPF constables during a security drive last week.

"The RPF was busy flushing out eunuchs when they saw the boy wearing his school uniform and loitering and they questioned him," the official told IANS.

Akash gave some vague replies which the RPF personnel suspected were false and they deboarded him.

At an RPF outpost later, the boy confessed to constables S. Gaonkar and K. Praveen that he had run away from home allegedly to escape harassment at the hands of his father.

"The boy said that he went as usual on his bicycle to school, boarded a train for Mumbai and then planned to go to his relatives' home in West Bengal," the official said.

Kundapur is a picturesque coastal town in Karnataka, around 740 km south of Mumbai.

The RPF summoned Akash's parents, who came immediately to pick him up. His shocked father said he worked as a driver in the Gulf and had come home for holidays.

When the father came to know that Akash was not studying well, he scolded him and imposed restrictions on his extra-curricular activities so he could concentrate more on studies.

Apparently upset by this, the boy ran away from home, the official said.

Despite counselling by constables Gaonkar and Praveen, Akash was reluctant to return home following which they called Radhakrishnan Bhat of the Parents Association of Schools, Bhatkal area.

Bhat managed to convince Akash who agreed to return home and promised that he would not run away again.

  

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  • Proud Indian, Kulshekar/Mangalore

    Fri, Jul 11 2014

    Gidavagi baggaddu maravaagi baggeethe? This boy will run away again. Now-a-day's children wants to enjoy their life. Parents run behind money and that too 14 year old boy. It is the duty of the mother to correct him since his childhood. He will again do some other things wait and watch.

    If father is scolding for the child's goodness, it has to be taken as good advise. Look at his courage to come to Mumbai !! Good he did not fall under any goon or .....

    I really cannot accept this.

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  • Bulsam, Mangalore

    Fri, Jul 11 2014

    Don't force children but persuade them in a friendly manner. Try to find out the reason behind the poor result and ask the child to find a best suggestion to overcome the situation but with a rider that if that will not work than he has to take another step that is more harsher to overcome the situation. Make the child agree to the new arrangements hence the child will feel that he was consulted.
    Next option is to take the child to a Councillor or get the aptitude test done to know what the child is really interested in or what is the problem in the child. There are so many medical and environment condition that restricts the child getting poor results. Please try to find out the root cause and treat accordingly.
    Education that you obtain that cannot be taken away from you nor you will lose it. That is an asset that always there with you to assist in your better future prospective.

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  • Joseph, Qatar

    Thu, Jul 10 2014

    @Ambrose, Bejai
    I fully endorse your views. Today education has become a big blot on the future of students., and the very fact that teachers vouch is all the more regrettable. There is too much of politics involved in the education department. The main reason is because today's media (be it electronic or print) has seeped into our culture and corroded it so much that we do not / we cannot find a way to escape from it. Even though voluntary organizations like NGO's and many aided forums are pitching in to create that awareness through jingles, public skits, public awareness campaigns, the gap cannot be bridged. I wonder if Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan was alive today, he would have hung his head down in shame. The draw back likes from the education department's point-of-view.

    I am told by my wife (who also is a teacher) that teachers yearn to reach out to the children through teaching skills of their own .. unfortunately nobody gives them a free hand. Like it or not, they are forcible subjected to the ''norms'' as laid down by the higher ups due to which students don't get a chance to learn something new in the hurry of completing the syllabus and washing their hands off. Unless you create a congenial atmosphere where the mind set of a student is not subjected to 4 corners of a classroom and study material, a child's brain cannot mature, we have to think 'out of the box'. There should be a major revamp im the education board especially ing syllabus based on the child's grasping age and not something of a supersonic jumbo. Look at the syllabus of todays children, you will be surprised to read of astronomical words and lessons not meant for their age. The teachers too are not exhorting the department to give them a free hand to prepare the syllabus every academic year. There should be a meeting with all school representatives and board members to put themselves into the children's shoes and think how uncomfortable it is for children to grasp portions of study.

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  • Ambrose, Bejai

    Thu, Jul 10 2014

    Appreciated the good work done by RPF. But what is happening to our children? what makes them to run away from parents? Look at the way how his father wants him to study. Father works in the gulf for the education and well being of his son and son runs away just to avoid punishment...Is this called education? I think it is the failure of education system in our country.

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  • Eulalia Dsouza, Bijai/ Mangalore

    Thu, Jul 10 2014

    Well done RPF. Keep up your good work.

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Thu, Jul 10 2014

    Hats off amchi Mumbai RPF.

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  • Suleman Beary, Udupi

    Thu, Jul 10 2014

    Great and noble job by RPF.

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