Sonia urges PM to give free education to children who lost parents in pandemic
The Hindu
They are left with ‘the trauma of loss and no support towards a stable education or future’, she points out
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide free education to the children whose parents died of COVID-19, in the Navodaya Vidyalayas. In a letter to Mr. Modi on Thursday, she highlighted the plight of the children who either lost both the parents or an earning parent during the pandemic. They were left with “the trauma of loss and no support towards a stable education or future”, she pointed out. “Amidst the devastation caused by the pandemic and the heart-wrenching tragedies being faced by affected families, news of young children losing one or both parents to COVID-19 are the most poignant,” she said.
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