Parkash Kaur, a social worker from Jalandhar city has been awarded a Padma Shri today from president Ram Nath Kovind. The award recognises her social service towards abandoned girl children in Punjab, which has one of India’s most skewed sex ratios. She has been running ‘Unique Home’, a centre for orphans, “unwanted” and “unclaimed” girls on the Nakodar Road, for the past 28 years.
Moreover, Prakash Kaur started with eight abandoned girl children in 1993 and now she has been mother of almost 100 abandoned girls. Out of which 30 girls raised by her are married. The other 70 are studying in private schools and colleges. Some of them are doing MBBS and BTech, some are pursuing LLB, psychology and other professional and vocational courses.
Meanwhile, in one of the trusted news portals she revealed that she herself was abandoned by her biological parents, saying the award had increased her responsibility towards society manifold. Moreover, she was brought up at Nari Niketan in the city. As the girls lovingly call her mother, she takes them for excursions to hill stations. Known to provide them with the best dresses, she takes them to top-end shopping malls. She even celebrated their birthdays together every year on 24 April.
Now, Prakash Kaur has finally been recognised for her social deeds and for caring for orphaned and abandoned girls.
Source: The Tribune
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