Father Of Bihar Girl, Who Cycled 1,200 Km For Him During Lockdown, Dies

Tuesday, 1 June 2021Newsdesk

Over a year after Jyoti Kumari cycled 1,200 kilometres from Gurgaon, near Delhi, to Bihar's Darbhanga with her injured father riding pillion during the national lockdown, the 15-year-old girl lost him to cardiac arrest.

New Delhi, 1 June 2021

As per news report of NDTV, Jyoti Kumari was in Gurgaon visiting her father Mohan Paswan, an e-rickshaw driver, in March last year after an accident forced him to stay at home. Once the lockdown was enforced and public transport shut off, she set off with her father and cycled for seven days, going hungry for two of those, before reaching home; they had so little money she even had to borrow to buy the cycle. She became the face of migrant workers' plight as tens of thousands of men, pregnant women and children have had to walk, or cycle, hundreds of kilometres to get home.

Source -NDTV