Four years after two sisters took over the barber shop for men in Kushinagar owned by their father after he suffered a paralysis attack, district administration finally reached out to the two girls offering them monetary assistance and assurance of all possible help to enable them to start a beauty parlour instead to help them secure a decent living.
It was in 2014 when the two sisters Jyoti and Neha ¨C then aged 13 and 11 respectively - were not left with an option but to take care of their father Dhruv NarayanĄ¯s barber shop after he was left bed ridden following a paralysis stroke.
In order to avoid possible criticism over gender issues, they dressed up like boys and attended the customers who came in for a haircuts and shave.
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The two kept the shop open for almost 10 hours a day and could manage to earn barely a couple of hundreds after meeting the other expenses of running the kiosk which housed the barber shop. Over the years, the two worked hard and finally managed to attend more customers and were able to earn Rs 400 to Rs 500 per day.
Neither the local politicians nor the district authorities took note of the struggle that the two teenagers went through till recently when the local media highlighted their ordeal.
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On Sunday the sub divisional magistrate (SDM) Kushinagar Abhishek Pandey and local MLA Mani Tripathi reached out to the two girls and handed them over Rs 16,00 and Rs 1000 as financial assistance.
Ą°It is more for the sake of encouraging the girls than anything else,Ąą the SDM said, adding that soon he will write to the state government to recommending financial assistance for the two sisters to help them set up a proper beauty parlour for a better living.