Rohtak ‘Padman’ renders yeoman service to needy

Sunit Dhawan
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, April 28

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Jagdeep Jugnu, a local who has been providing free sanitary pads to the underprivileged girls and women amid Covid, has turned out to be a real-life hero.

Jugnu, who runs Path Society, a voluntary social organisation, has been supplying 400 to 500 packs of sanitary pads every month to girls and women, who cannot afford these. So far, he has supplied nearly 7,000 packs of sanitary pads.

Donating Covid essentials too

Jagdeep Jugnu has been supplying home-stitched masks, soap bars, toothpastes, sanitisers and slippers to the slum dwellers so as to check the spread of Covid

The social activist has also been supplying home-stitched facemasks, soap bars, toothpastes, sanitisers and slippers to the slum dwellers so as to check the spread of Covid.

“Creating awareness among slum dwellers about health and hygiene is a big challenge. Dr Parveen Malhotra of Rohtak-PGIMS, retired college principal Ved Prakash Sheoran and certain other members and organisations of the civil society have been providing the financial support and motivation needed for the social endeavours,” he says.

Jugnu and his wife Sunita also run an informal training school named ‘Abhinav Toly’ for the underprivileged, where they teach children and also train them in music, dance, drama, photography and beauty grooming, etc.

They have recently set up a library at their Belarkha village in Jind district to inculcate the habit of reading, especially among the children.

“Our students also volunteer and participate in social activities, and seeing them become sensitive towards human concerns and contributing their mite gives immense satisfaction,” says Sunita.