Mangaluru: Harekal Hajabba, fruit vendor who set up school for poor children,to get Padma Shri Award
Hajabba set up school for children of his village through earnings from selling oranges in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: Harekal Hajabba, an uneducated Mangalorean man who established a school for the children of his village has been selected to be conferred with the Padma Shri Award for his selfless services in providing education to the children for over 20 years now.
Hailing from Newpadupu village in Dakshina Kannada District set up school for children of his village through meagre earnings from selling oranges in Mangalore. He initially set up ‘Hajabba School’ in a community mosque and later turned into Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Higher Primary School with the help of locals and the government.
Hajabba will be awarded the fourth highest civilian award of the country in ‘Social Work (Affordable Education)’ category.
Having faced hardships because of being uneducated, Hajabba did not want the future generations of his village to go through the same. He now plans to upgrade the school to Pre-University College for the children in the village.
Having set up the school and helping hundreds of students of the village so far, Hajabba remains a selfless and humble man who kept his personal interests beside his social goals and didn’t even have a proper house to live in.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
