Separated from 6-yr-old daughter, Jharkhand man finally leaves for home

Separated from his 6-year-old

daughter in Jharkhand for close to two months, Arjun Singh Choudhary on whom fortune smiled, left from Katpadi in Tamil Nadu's Vellore district by a special train tohis home state.

Though he has to return to CMC Vellore, again for treating his wife, he is rather relieved to be homeward-bound to be reunited with his little daughter and octogenarian parents in Bokaro.

He was among the nearly 1,140 people who on Wednesday night were put on the first special train,arranged by the Tamil Nadu government on the request of the Jharkhand government to the northern state from Katpadi station in Velloredistrict.

"It was a bitter experience staying in the lodge with my cash saving running dry, no food to eat and the cruel lodge owners demanding the rent.

There were 15 of us from Bokaro, who were stranded in the lodge as the nationwide lockdown was enforced from March 25," reminiscences Arjun Singh, who works in an electrical shop in his home town.

He ...