Retired IPS officers back Musahars
17 October 2009

PATNA: The Association of Retired IPS Officers of Bihar has extended
support to the Musahar community, said to be the poorest of the poor
in the
state. This was decided at a meeting of the association here on Thursday.

J K Sinha, a member of the association, runs a school in Patna to
impart quality education coupled with vocational training for Musahar
children for free. The school is English medium and residential,
providing boarding, lodging, clothes, books, healthcare and other
necessities to such children.

Sinha, who joined the IPS in 1967 in the footsteps of his father M K
Sinha, a legendary police officer who was the police chief of the
state for seven years and his grandfather A K Sinha, the first Indian
to become police chief of a state (Bihar) way back in 1939.

Empowered by quality education, Musahar children, after passing out of
this school, will not only make a quantum jump in life but also act as
a catalyst of change for possibly the most exploited and poverty
stricken community in India, Sinha told TOI.

The Association believes that this is a silent revolution, which
decades later shall change the entire profile of the Musahar
community, which has seen only deprivation for centuries.

The Association of Retired IPS Officers has appealed to the entire
police fraternity to generously support the community, said S B Sahay,
president and G Narain, vice-president of the association,
respectively.

Source: Times of India, Patna, October 17,2009