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POLIO-AFFLICTED PERSON TRAVELLING FROM PURI ON HIS TRICYCLE SPREADS AWARENESS

Posted on: 26/Apr/2010 5:25:24 AM

33 year old, Polio afflicted, Arbind Kumar Mishra has been on a mission that even a normal person would think hard to undertake. He has been travelling from Puri on his tricycle since November, 2009 with a banner carrying a message of Polio Immunization and Hepatitis-B [H-B] He had been in Vellore for four days till Sunday. The great mission is because he does not want people to undergo the same suffering that he has been undergoing for want of awareness. He was affected because his parents lacked resources to prevent the infection, which affected in his child hood. The Vellore police are helping to spread the message

Mr. Mishra, who hails from the village of Sadaveh near Patna, said that he travelled from Patna to Puri by train, and went on his tricycle mission from Puri on November 7, 2008. Having visited Orissa, Chattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, he came to Vellore from Chittoor 4 days ago. He would be leaving for Kancheepuram on Sunday, and go to Chennai. His further journey would be to Puducherry, Kanyakumari, Madurai, Kerala and Karnataka before reaching Goa.