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Poverty-stricken Kerala mother hands 4 kids to child welfare

  •   Tue, Dec 03 2019 12:36:43 PM

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 2 (IANS): The state capital hung its head in shame after the news broke out that a mother, unable to feed her six children, on Monday handed over four of them to the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare.

What's more sad and shocking is that the family lived just 1 km from the Secretariat, the seat of power.

The council decided to remove four children and leave the younger ones -- 4-month-old and 1.5-year-old with the mother, after neighbours of this hapless family, which was living in a makeshift tent, informed it of their condition.

Council officials said their condition was pitiable. They were told that the elder kid, aged seven, ate sand as they were unable to buy food, the official added.

"These four kids will be under our care and those going to school will continue that. They went to school to have food," said a Council official.

The mother said her husband was a daily labourer, but spent all his money on drinks and never gave any to meet the family needs.

After the news broke out, city Mayor K. Sreekumar visited the hapless family and promised the mother a temporary job in the Corporation from Monday.

It's unfortunate that no official of Kerala, which boasted the high standards, especially in the fields of social development, could locate this hapless family.
  

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  • Sunil Dsouza, Mangalore

    Wed, Dec 04 2019

    Why did the couple plan for so many kids when they know they cant feed them?

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  • k b r, Mangala Uru

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    poverty does not spare even self-styled God's own country...

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  • BHARATH, BANGALORE

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    I appreciate her honesty & courage.. Her move should set an example for people who take lives of themselves and the children by taking wrong steps like commiting sucides etc...

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  • Charles D'Mello, Pangala

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Producing more children when one can not feed them must be considered as crime. The poverty may be because of so many factors,,,,one of them is producing more children.

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  • AnoNymouS, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    The father should be forcefully castrated, if he cannot take of the children that he has produced.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    With the economy in a tail spin and a burgeoning population poor people's miseries will increase manifold!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Are these the Promised Acche Din ...

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  • mediwn, mangalore

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    now a days even rich people also having either one or two children. it is very difficult to providing food, cloth, education etc. even for 2 children of the family. in such a case it is very very difficult for a poor family to maintain 4 or more children. so the need of hour is adopt family plan & 1 or 2 child is enough for a family. in this regard law should be implemented so that our economical condition may improve. but it is not so easy since vote bank politics wont allow this.

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  • Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    @Rajesh, Mangalore
    I am not against Modiji but being the PM he has do much more than simply expressing his view.
    When Sanjay Gandhi was trying to bring some awareness or foresight on population growth opposition parties (may be Janata/janatadal) made hue and cry and blasted him for introducing forcible family planning. Let all the parties take unite decision and not to act on political grounds. Good for the country.

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  • Shan, Udupi

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    It's our duty that we have to donate 10 percent of our income but our religious places ask the people to donate to religious places. Why these religious places don't use their money to poverty stricken people?

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  • madanson, mangalore

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    it is known factor that the money collected at temple from the devotee is taken over by govt & it is used for govt schemes. but this law is not applicable for other religious place.

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  • Santan Mascarenhas, Kinnigoli/Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Other than this type of instances, I want to write here the reality of our country's poor citizens.

    1. One social worker, when asked why the woman who came to her did not bring her mother said, they had only one saree and at home they cover their body by paper and told the social worker, she would give the saree to her mother and send to the social worker next day. This is in Orissa.
    2. When I visited Assam, one nun there told me that they are helping tribal people in Tripura who do not have any clothes to wear and those tribals in mountain area wear tree leaves.
    3. Arunachal Pradesh is on the other side of Assam, and I am told that our govt is not doing anything to alleviate their poverty and they want China to take over that disputed state where they expect quick development as is in China. (This is their view and not mine).

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  • Wilfred J. Lewis, Matpady-Brahmavar/ New York, USA

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Brilliant act by mother to up-bring her financially poor children...

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  • PINTO, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    I want to live untill to see a day where all the money spent on building tall statues, purchasing MLA's , buiiding religious structures for unseen Gods etc etc is spent to feed these poor..May God enlighten us all and make his instruments to erase the tears of these poor

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  • Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Does he ever talk about India's exploding population growth and how that effects our economic achievement. He explodes all cooked up facts & figures.
    What he has done on increasing rapes in the country. PM should act quickly to bring some ways to punish the rapists without mercy.
    Beti padao bet bachao - only a slogan.
    Only those who have beties would understand the reality.

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  • Rajesh, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    You say and i quote "Does he ever talk about India's exploding population growth and how that effects our economic achievement."

    Dear Sir, You do not read newspapers properly. After getting elected as PM for the second time, The PM highlighted the need to control the population. It is in fact the opposition whose vote bank politics will not allow for a Law on population. There are cultures who beleive controlling population is against their religion, they will vehemently oppose such a Law. if somebody can pass a population Law in this country it will be Mr Modi .

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  • Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    @ El En Tea, Mumbai
    Please dont ask this question
    Its a natural GODs creation
    Keep phase 1 yourself and try for atleast one if you can

    The question raised by Roshan is :
    Why have so many kids at the first place ? 2 should be good enough..

    India is overburdened by ever exploding population growth thereby creating never ending problems.
    Government should or must introduce family panning schemes. Just like China's policy. It is already too late but it is better late than never.

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  • AR Mohammed, Udupi

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    China already started revising their earlier One child policy...………….
    Japan, Germany and many developed countries are encouraging to produce more children...……….
    That earlier population control policy backfired and made imbalance...……..
    The main problem is huge gap between Rich and poor...………..
    Government should take care of poor, create employment, give unemployment allowances, provide basic needs to its citizens then no is required to eat sand.
    As Government to collecting taxes from the wealthy they are responsible for feeding its poor citizens.
    Why law makers are getting subsidized food, free electricity, tax free salary.... If Government can afford on this why can they afford on its poor citizens...…………….

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Indian population will overtake China 's next year; with no. 105 in global hunger INDEX we will have lots of problems going ahead!
    BTW, many couples are deciding not to produce children because of climatic change and the overall tough living conditions!!

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  • Rajesh, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Dear Mr,
    China wants more children now because it had implemented one child policy for a long time. The density of population is very less now. They have pulled out of poverty a large section of population in last three decades. In the case with Germany and some other countries the people in general dont have more than 2 kids. Take the examples of countries like Bangladesh, Pakithan India where historically the population is very high. They are very poor and backward without basic ameneties. So saying population is not a problem is very foolish. People who have little brains also extrapolate things. If you are doing that you will come to know that nearly 40% of Jobs will be lost in another two decades becasuse of technology and automation. if in this scenario you add population there will be more children who may have to eat mud. besides the resources will deplete fast, to down the mud through the throat there may not be a glass of water.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Very true, because China imposed strict population control, today they are well off while population has gone out of control!

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  • Indian, India

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Modi's acche din...
    He is infact busy nurturing his party with hefty GST on common citizens... And his blind disciples praise him and want him...
    There's no accountability for his frquent foreign tours ...
    There's a heavy loss in the country from all angles because of his inefficient Leadership !!!

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  • Flavian, Mangaluru/Kuwait

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    "The mother said her husband was a daily labourer, but spent all his money on drinks and never gave any to meet the family needs."
    One side poverty, three kids and bread earner is daily labourer. over and above all head of the family is alcoholic. Poor class do not have any comforts in life, no recreation, friend circle and only way is to get attached to the partner and produce children. (factory). What the government can do. The couple lacks education to understand the problems of having big family, more than two children.
    Blame the man who is not his senses. (somewhere, Cows have a shelter and well fed)

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  • Roshan, Udupi

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Why have so many kids at the first place ? 2 should be good enough..

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  • El En Tea, Mumbai

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Please dont ask this question
    Its a natural GODs creation
    Keep phase 1 yourself and try for atleast one if you can

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  • Satish, udupi

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    Government should implement strict polices towards population explosion.
    Controlling population explosion will solve all major issues such as unemployment, hunger, poverty etc in India.

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  • AR Mohammed, Udupi

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    This is the reality of India...…………
    We are way far from 5 trillion economy, Super power of the world.
    We need honest efforts from the government to eradicate poverty...
    With present electoral system and mindset of politicians we cant eradicate poverty and we can not do progress.....
    We need reforms, need Satyagraha, need revolution...……………..
    We need change...……………….

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  • Rajesh, Mangalore

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    I agree with many of the things you say. However, one more issue i would like to say is, have a family you can sustain and not more than that. the labourer did not have resources to feed two children but he had six children!!!. Can you tell me why they did they not get the guarenteed provision?. why the elder child was eating mud and dirt?

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  • Dsouza, Mudarangadi /Udupi

    Tue, Dec 03 2019

    What a great nation we are living in, our neigbhours ready to give complaint, but not ready to help needy.

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