Thirteen-year-old Jyoti took her father home on a bicycle



Sometimes on foot, sometimes by bicycle and sometimes by truck, 13-year-old Jyoti and her father traveled from Gurgram in the Indian state of Haryana to Darbhanga in Bihar. Stories of Jyoti's courage are being broadcast in the local media.


 The owner of the room had threatened to evict him three times.  So he told Dad to go on a bicycle. Dad didn't agree, but I did. '

Jyoti managed to get her father Mohan Paswan on a bicycle to his village Sarhulile in Sanghwara district of Darbhanga from Gurgram. The 1,200-kilometer journey was made possible by the courage of a 13-year-old girl.

Jyoti's father used to drive a battery-powered rickshaw in Gurgram. He was involved in a road accident on January 26, after which Jyoti and his four siblings went to Grogram with their mother.

Jyoti's mother works for the government agency 'Anganwadi' in Pholo Devi village and went to Guru Gram on a ten-day leave. At the end of the holiday, she left Jyoti with her father and took the rest of the children back to the village with her.

Pholo Devi said that she had taken a loan of Rs 60,000 and had operated on Mohan Paswan. He had not yet recovered from the lockdown.

Jyoti said he was not afraid to take his father to the village as there were many more people on the streets. At night they would stop near a petrol pump and start walking again the next morning.

"People were surprised to see us on the way," he said. But wondering what they would do and what we could do. '

Asked about returning to Grogram, Jyoti's father said, "I got a job here, I got a loan, so I will drive here and stay with my daughter."