Admn, police officials celebrate Diwali with shelter home inmates
We are living at the shelter home for long time, but it is for the first we are feeling the joy of celebrating the festival with officials and social workers
KOTA: Officials of the administration and police departments, along with their families, celebrated Diwali with speciallyabled children, senior citizens and other inmates of a shelter home in Kota.
On the Diwali eve, divisional commissioner LN Soni, deputy inspector general Ravi Dutt Gaur, district collector Om Prakash Kasera, superintendent of police (Kota rural) Rajan Dushyant and other officials visited Apna Ghar shelter home in the district and shared joy of celebrating the festival of light with the shelter home inmates.
Officials performed aarti and distributed sweets and new clothes to around 300 destitute people, specially-abled children and abandoned senior citizens.
The shelter home inmates were overwhelmed by the gesture. “We are living at the shelter home for long time, but it is for the first we are feeling the joy of
RAMA DEVI, shelter home inmate
celebrating the festival with officials and social workers,” said Rama Devi, a senior citizen and the shelter home inmate.
The visitors also burst firecrackers with the speciallyabled children. A dinner was also hosted on the occasion.
District collector Kasera said that everyone works for their own and families, but serving others should be the aim of life.
Manoj Jain, the shelter home secretary, said this is for the first that officials have celebrated Diwali with the shelter home inmates.