Pathshala at railway station pitches a future for homeless kids
(WorldNews India)

ALLAHABAD: For five-year-old Puja and, her friends Seema (6), Rohit (8) and Naresh (4) their alarm clock is the horn of a train chugging along any platform they spend the night at the Allahabad Junction. While some of them were separated from their parents, others were left behind by families to fend for themselves. The four of them spend the day loitering on the railway station, once they are done with collecting trash from the premises. Since last week, these young rag pickers have a new agenda-attending classes conducted thrice a week as part of the `Platform ki Pathshala` initiative by the North Central Railway (NCR) Women`s Welfare Organisation (Allahabad division). Apart from...