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      Meet Padma Shri Harekala Hajabba : A Fruit Seller got one of India’s Highest Civilian Honours

      Harekala Hajabba, a fruit vendor from Karnataka’s Mangaluru, wearing a simple white cotton shirt and a dhoti, as he walk on to receive the Padma Shri award at the assembly in Rashtrapati Bhavan on 8th November 2021.

      As President Ram Nath Kovind gave him over the award, the audience cheer for him heartily.

      President Ram Nath Kovind awarded the Padma Shri to Harekala Hajabba, an orange vendor in Mangaluru who save money to establish a school in his town.

      The school has 175 underprivilege students from the village.

      The desire to bring about this huge change in education in his village came to his mind in 1978 when a foreigner ask him the cost of orange.

      Harekala Hajabba Said :

      “As I could not communicate with the foreigner, I felt bad and decided to build a school in the village,” “I only know Kannada, not English or Hindi. So I was depressed as I could not help the foreigner. I wondered about constructing a school in my village,”.

      His dream of constructing a school was realise only after two decades.

      The Akshara Santa (Letter Saint), a title that he earn through his philanthropic work, approach former MLA late UT Fareed, who sanction the construction in the year 2000.

      The school starts with 28 students and now accommodates 175 students until Class 10.

      Harekala Hajabba wants to invest the prize money that he has receive after winning various awards in these many years in the construction of more schools in his village.

      Harekala Hajabba Said :

      “My target is to build more schools and colleges in my village. Many people have donated money and I have accumulated prize money for purchasing the land for the construction of schools and colleges.”

      “I have requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to construct a pre-university college (for Class 11 and 12 students) in my village,”.

      He also thank President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, district in-charge minister Kota Srinivasa Poojary and MLA UT Khadar for recognising his philanthropic work.

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      The 68-year-old fruit vendor had already been award India’s fourth highest civilian honour for almost a decade of work educating disadvantaged youngsters in his hamlet of Newpadapu through his organisation.

      The Central government had announce the names of Padma Awardees in January 2020.

      But due to COVID-19 protocols, the award was distribute now. 

      THANK YOU FOR READING.

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