Wife of other Taliban victim being made to run for promised job, free schooling

As the family of K Suryanarayan, murdered by the Taliban in Afghanistan last Sunday, battles the traumatic fallout, another woman in Kerala, whose husband too was killed by the Taliban, runs from pillar to post for assistance that was promised but never given.

As the family of K Suryanarayan, murdered by the Taliban in Afghanistan last Sunday, battles the traumatic fallout, another woman in Kerala, whose husband too was killed by the Taliban, runs from pillar to post for assistance that was promised but never given.

Bindu, wife of Border Roads Organisation driver Maniappan Kutty who was killed last November, has been trying to convince officials in Alapuzha that her children had been promised free education by the government when their father died.

Speaking to The Indian Express from her village Harippad, Bindu said officials now want her to get a “certificate” from the HRD Ministry.

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“It’s not easy for me to go all the way to Delhi and meet people. My youngest son is just two-and-half months old and I cannot leave him home.” Her elder son will be moving to Class IV this year and she wants him in a “good school”.

In the rash of promises that followed Kutty’s killing, Bindu, while being given monetary compensation, had been told her children would be given free education.

She was also promised a job in the Alapuzha unit of the NTPC. But on March 1, she received a letter from the local MLA “saying Parliament was told that the NTPC unit doesn’t have any vacancy now”. She said she tried to follow it up but everyone in Kerala was busy with the state polls.

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