A 15-year-old girl who pedalled her injured migrant-worker father more than a thousand kilometres across India after a coronavirus lockdown left them destitute has been invited to try out for the n...
Jyoti Kumari Paswan and her family stand in front of their house in Siruhully village at Darbhanga district, on May 23, 2020.
Jyoti Kumari rode a bicycle with her father, Mohan Paswan, sitting on the pillion and holding their belongings from Gurugram city, near New Delhi, to their village in the northeastern state of Bihar, local media reported.Paswan, a motorised rickshaw driver, was among millions of migrant workers left jobless after the country was suddenly locked down in March to slow the spread of the virus.
The father and daughter’s arduous journey on a second-hand bike bought with their remaining funds made headlines. “She covered this distance in seven days with her father and some luggage too. I thought she has something in her… that endurance level. We can try her,” chairman Onkar Singh told AFP.
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