PM Modi appreciates cart puller Goutam Das who provides food to poor from his daily earnings

May 31: Who said one needs to be a billionaire to help people and be humane? 51-year-old Goutam Das from Tripura is a simple cart puller. He has spent his little savings to serve people during the lockdown. He has been feeding the poor and needy everyday using the money from his daily earnings. His yeoman service towards humanity did not escape the eyes of the Prime Minister. On Sunday, PM Narendra Modi in his Maan Ki Baat programme appreciated the efforts of Goutam Das. The PM said, “It’s an exemplary role played by the cart puller Goutam Das from Agartala who provides food to the distressed through his humble earning.”

During #MannKiBaat , PM Sh @narendramodi applauded Shri Gautam Das who is a cart puller from Agartala,#Tripura , #Northeast and has been feeding the poor and needy every day, using the money from his daily earnings. @BjpBiplab pic.twitter.com/3AIb12qPLz

— Dr Jitendra Singh (@DrJitendraSingh) May 31, 2020

Soon after the Prime Minister talked about the Tripura man in his radio programme, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb felicitated Das. Taking to his twitter handle, Biplab Kumar Deb wrote, “Happy to meet Goutam Das, a cart puller from Tripura who has spent his savings to serve people during lockdown period. In today’s #MaanKiBaat programme PM @narendramodiji also appreciated the efforts of Goutam Das. He is an inspiration to many, our Gov’t will always support him.”

Happy to meet Goutam Das, a cart puller from Tripura who has spent his savings to serve people during lockdown period. In today's #MaanKiBaat programme PM @narendramodi ji also appreciated the efforts of Goutam Das. He is an inspiration to many, our Gov't will always support him. pic.twitter.com/aEqwquXrHZ

— Biplab Kumar Deb (@BjpBiplab) May 31, 2020

When the state CM Biplab Kumar Deb asked people to donate food and essential supplies for the poor in their respective localities and do the holy work of feeding the needy, Goutam Das was very much touched by this appeal. Since then, he started purchasing rice and pulses out of his paltry savings and daily earnings. Das earns around Rs.200 a day from his work of cart pulling.

#MannKiBaat May 2020. Tune in. https://t.co/cyDovLkUrm

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 31, 2020

Goutam Das lives all by himself in a tiny mud house at Sadhutilla village near capital city of Agartala. His wife died many years ago and his children live separately. The nationwide lockdown augmented by the outbreak of coronavirus had a great impact on Das who could see hungry faces all around in the absence of work. It was since then that this daily wage earner started to pack rice and pulses and go on distributing the same among the poor in his cart.

Though he felt excited to listen to the Prime Minister mentioning his name, but that was not what Das was aiming for. “My income is less. I am a poor man. But whatever little I have, I want to share with those who are much deprived that me,” said Goutam Das.

Such real life stories of good Samaritan are definitely inspiring for a materialistic society we are inhabiting. Such kind gesture usually go unnoticed because people like Goutam Das cannot afford to click selfies and upload them in social media. However, good deeds hardly goes unnoticed. The Prime Minister appreciating Das and the Chief Minister felicitating him for his yeomen service would definitely inspire him and such others to move ahead in life.