Pune, May 9: Four-year-old Rizwan Rajmohammad Shaikh can tell you facts about the states, rattle of information on science and technology, geography and even name state and world capitals. He can also explain chemical reactions, human physiology and scientific inventions with ease.
Yet, it’s a tragedy when the boy with amazing recall from Wing, a hamlet in Khandala taluka of Satara district, does not have the money to go to school. His parents, Rajmohammad and Ruksar Shaikh, sister Sania and younger brother Ayan, live in abject poverty.
However, there is a ray of hope. The Pune Police both rural and city have offered to help the family. While police commissioner Jayant Umranikar has promised his father a job in a private company, Superintendent of Pune Rural police Vishwas Nangre Patil has said he will sponsor Rizwan’s education in any of the top schools with boarding facilities under their jurisdiction.
“I found Rizwan has amazing grasping power and a sharp memory. He answered a number of general knowledge questions with ease and in no time. I have assured his parents that the Pune Rural Police will sponsor his education in the best schools with boarding facilities. He can even get admission in the best schools in Baramati,” Nangre Patil said. He now plans to take Rizwan to meet district guardian minister Ajit Pawar and has assured his father a job with the welfare department.
Umranikar, who also met Rizwan, said he had a fantastic memory. “We are trying to locate a job for Rizwan’s father in the private sector so that he afford Rizwan’s education.” Help has also come from Mumbai police commissioner DN Jadhav who promised to help Rizwan after he spoke to him over the telephone on Tuesday evening. Jadhav has invited Rajmohammad and Rizwan for a meeting.
Rizwan, who is already a celebrity in Satara district, and his family, who migrated to Pune in January, have been offered a small room for free by police havaldar Vijay Raghunath Tembhekar posted at Bharati Vidyapeeth police station. Tembhekar could not bare the plight of the family who came to meet President APJ Abdul Kalam at Raj Bhavan when he was visiting Pune in January.
The President met the boy and chatted with him for half an hour.”Rizwan told him he wanted to become a scientist,” said Rajmohammad.
It all started a year ago with Rajmohammad, who has studied up to SSC, writing some tables and Rizwan learning them quickly. In the next two days he had learnt tables up to 50.
“As of now, Rizwan can answer more than 4,000 general knowledge questions from the MPSC syllabus, knows the entire standard IV and VII scholarship exam syllabus and knows much about science, mathematics, geography, basic English, important landmarks of Indian history, world and state capitals, modern scientific inventions and numerical measures of earth, India and Maharashtra,” said his father.
The couple is worried about Rizwan. “I want to give him an education, even if it is in the Marathi medium. But I don’t even have a job,” said his father. “We want him to go to school. But we have no money even for food. I am willing to work to ensure he studies,” said Ruksar.
It`s sad to hear there are
It`s sad to hear there are cases like this in this world. There are so many dumb people full of money who don`t even follow a school or if they do it, they do it because of their parents or they skip classes and use school as a potentially fun mean. How someone will be kind enough to donate some money to this family in order to allow their kids to follow a school. I had the chance to talk to a kid like that in a drug rehab in los angeles
Unfortunately, there a lot
Unfortunately, there a lot of this cases around us, but people don't get to know about them.
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Rizwan gets a German benefactor for his education
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Pune, May 10: TILL Wednesday, four-year-old Rizwan Shaikh, despite being gifted with amazing memory could not go to school because his parents Rajmohammad and Ruksar could not afford it.
On Thursday morning, after German national Heinz Toelle, partner of Sanaswadi-based Menshen Ropa Plastics Pvt Limited, read about his extraordinary recall in Pune Newsline, Rizwan had found a benefactor.
Toelle is willing to sponsor Rizwan’s education.The decision was communicated to Superintendent of Police (Pune Rural) Vishwas Nangre Patil by managing director Hiten Patel on Thursday.
According to Patel, Heinz Toelle, who was visiting the company facility read the report and made up his mind to sponsor Rizwan’s schooling.Toelle said he would pay his fees, lodging, boarding and all his educational expenses. “ He wants Rizwan to achieve his goals and now it is up to his father to decide.The choice of school lies with the family,” Patel said.
Nangre Patil on Thursday deputed police sub-inspector Arvind Gokule of the Local Crime branch (LCB) to facilitate a meeting between Heinz Toelle and Rizwan’s family members. Gokule was instructed to locate Rizwan’s address in Padmavati and take him to the company headquarters at Sanaswadi in Shirur taluka. However, both could not meet since Toelle had to leave for Mumbai to catch a flight back to Germany.
“Toelle was disappointed he could not meet the child,” said Patel.
Nangre Patil said, “The rural police will play the role of mediator in the process and ensure there is a comprehensive programme to settle Rizwan. All the focus will be to ensure that he gets the best of education in a top school.”
Rizwan, from Wing, a hamlet in Khandala taluka in Satara district, knows facts about the states, information on science and technology, geography and even state and world capitals. He can explain chemical reactions, human physiology and scientific inventions with ease.