Kolkata cop wins hearts after his picture of teaching a child while managing traffic goes viral

Tribune Web Desk

Chandigarh, April 15

Social media is the repository of heartfelt and magnanimous videos. Many clips of people helping overlooked and downtrodden often keep circulating, giving us hope of humanity being upheld. In the streak, a beautiful story and image of a Kolkata cop is going viral. In the viral image, the traffic policeman can be seen teaching a child while performing his duty on road.

The entire story of this cop has been shared on Facebook by Kolkata police along with photo.

“The teacher cop. Whenever he was on duty near Ballygunge ITI, Sergeant Prakash Ghosh of Southeast Traffic Guard would often spot a boy of around eight, playing on the roads near him. The boy’s mother works at a roadside food stall, and has gone to great lengths to get her son enrolled at a government school, in hopes of a better life for him. The homeless mother and son live on the pavement, but she nurtures great hopes that her son will break free of the shackles of grinding poverty and make his mark on the world. However, the student of class 3 was losing interest in his studies, which was becoming one of her biggest worries. Having grown to know Sgt Ghosh over time, she confessed those worries to him,” the police department wrote.

“Having heard her story, he promised to help in whatever way he could. But not even she could have foreseen the extent of that help. On the days he is assigned to the area, Sgt Ghosh has been teaching the boy, making him sit down with his books even as he himself supervises traffic, or makes time once goes off duty at the end of his shift. From setting and checking homework, to correcting his student’s spellings, pronunciation, even handwriting. Because his uniform and gaiters make it difficult for him to sit, he takes his ‘class’ standing up, using a twig as a teaching tool. The boy’s gradual improvement has given his mother complete faith in the ‘teacher’, who manages to handle both his duties equally competently,” they added.

The department also gave credit of photo to journalist Arnabangshu Neogi, who tweeted it.

Since being shared online, the post has surpassed 34,000 likes. Netizens are praising the kindness of cop as he is performing two duties at a time.

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