Summary:
MEERUT: Samarpit, 13, Meena, 12, and Shankar, 11, from Lisadh village in Shamli suddenly found they are all alone.
In a year, they have lost every loved one bringing them up — father, mother and both grandparents.
District officials said under the new government scheme, while financial assistance will be arranged, the children will continue to live alone in their house at Lisadh with a relative checking in on them from time to time.
Disappointed, their lives in disarray, Samarpit, just a teenager himself, said he will step up and raise his siblings.
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MEERUT: Samarpit, 13, Meena, 12, and Shankar, 11, from Lisadh village in Shamli suddenly found they are all alone.
In a year, they have lost every loved one bringing them up — father, mother and both grandparents.
District officials said under the new government scheme, while financial assistance will be arranged, the children will continue to live alone in their house at Lisadh with a relative checking in on them from time to time.
Disappointed, their lives in disarray, Samarpit, just a teenager himself, said he will step up and raise his siblings.
Their father was a farmer with nine bigha land and five buffaloes.
The three were bright and diligent students at the local school.
In April last year, just into the lockdown, their father got Covid-19.