Wednesday morning was a very special morning for a lot of children of Seth Anandi Lal Poddar Senior Secondary School of Jaipur. It is a special school for gifted children. Rajasthan Police made this “rakhi” special for all of the students of this school. Small children having hearing and speech difficulty have tied rakhi on the wrists of Policemen. The children of this school are gifted and communicate through sign language. There are around 40 girls in the school who celebrated this occasion with the Commissioner of Police and other policemen. The Policemen had gone to the school on Wednesday morning to celebrate this auspicious festival with the hearing and speech impaired children.
It was not only the capital city which saw such one-of-a-kind celebration; similar events were organized in different cities across the state in which more than 5000 policemen including various senior officers of Rajasthan Police accompanied gifted children and got Rakhi tied on their wrist. It was a special moment when the policemen assured their sisters to work hard for their safety and security.
The event was scheduled at around 11:00 am and all the children, especially girls were really excited about the event. The policemen also seemed relaxed and enjoyed those special moments. They got their pictures clicked and also shook hands with every student at Anandi Lal Podder School.
Yogendra Singh Naruka, In-charge, SAL deaf and the dumb senior secondary school said, “Initially the girls were a bit nervous and when the policemen including Agarwal, commissioner of police got the Rakhi tied and gave them sweets, chocolates, and pen as a gift they were very happy.”
Everybody, including Sanjay Agarwal, Commissioner of Police, was very happy and overwhelmed with the reactions of the students and thus he announced a picnic to Nahargarh for all the students. He said, “It was our aim to reach out to the people. I think this will make a strong bond of every policeman with the common man.” Agarwal was excited to see his wrist full of glittering Rakhis.
“The experience is very amusing and terrific. We feel special between all these students,” said Gaurav Srivastav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) feeling moved with the energy of children.
All the girls and women tied the rakhi knots on the wrists of the policemen from a constable to the director general of police.
“We too as a police want people to understand that we are also from the same society and we too have emotions. I am thankful to the senior authorities for organizing such event to connect us to the society,” said Laado Ram, a head constable at Rajgarh police station of Alwar.
