Bihar girl, who cycled 1200 km carrying father, to be called for trial by cycling federation

In the duration of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-necessitated nationwide lockdown in India, several stories of the innumerable hardships being faced by the country's migrant labourers and their daunting perseverance in the face of that have come to light. The latest in that list is the story of a 15-year-old girl who cycled almost 1,200-km, from Gurugram in Haryana to her hometown in Bihar's Darbhanga, with her injured father riding pillion.

Mohan Paswan, a resident of the Sirhualli village at the Singhwara block of Bihar's Darbhanga district, used to provide for his family by running a tempo in Gurugram, but only a few months ago had he succumbed to an accident and as a result, rendered jobless because of his injury.

Following this, Mohan's 15-year-old daughter, Jyoti Kumari, had moved to Gurugram to take care of her father in the wake of the accident, while her mother stayed back at their village with her younger siblings.