Sitting outdoors the home of Lance Naik Jitendra Kumar Verma in Dhananda village of Madhya Pradesh’s Sehore district, 35-year-old childhood buddy Devnarayan Mewada, remembers his childhood buddy Devnarayan Mewada, 35, “Lying on a cot and gazing at the night sky, Jitendra was always an aspiration. Used to talk about – to fly.” ,
Verma, one of many private safety officers of CDS Bipin Rawat, died in a helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
For Verma, Mewada was extra like a member of the household – he taken care of the household in Jitendra’s absence, together with withdrawing cash despatched by his son. Verma’s home is likely one of the few pucca constructions just lately constructed at Dhananda, 22 km from Sehore city. The partitions of the home are embellished with pictures of Verma as an NCC cadet; Also there’s a group photograph along with his battalion.
On the opposite wall are footage of their two kids.
He is survived by spouse Sonu and two kids, a four-year-old daughter and a one-year-old son.
Sitting within the corridor of their newly constructed home, his father Shivraj Verma, 54, stated, “He promised to take me on a long journey when he was to come home on leave.”
Shivraj stated, “Jitendra had spoken to his wife a day earlier and told that he has to travel.” A farmer who doubles up as a labourer, incomes Rs 100 as every day wage, Shivraj has traveled to the farthest Bhopal ever – to drop off his son.
Family members stated Jitendra deliberate to take his mother and father to Vaishnodevi in Jammu and Kashmir when he got here dwelling on depart in February subsequent 12 months.
For the household, this 12 months’s Diwali celebrations had been particular, because the eldest of 4 siblings and the monetary spine of the household of six, Verma was dwelling. Shivraj stated that his choice within the military in 2011 got here as a giant help to the household, which until then was surviving on a four-acre farm.
“We had a small piece of farmland and that was not enough, but I earned Rs 100 a day, which went for my children’s education. Jitendra was a smart kid,” stated Shivraj. Jitendra’s cousin Ramnarayan stated, “He was very smart, that’s why he was posted with such a big man.”
Mewada, who was getting ready to hitch the armed providers however couldn’t achieve this, stated, “Jitendra encouraged not only me but every child in the village – sena mein bahu mazata hai woh kahta tha tha (he would say) Were that military life was fun).)”
Mewada recalled that each time he got here again dwelling, Verma used to go to his college Dhamanda and faculty Amlaha, the place he would encourage college students to remain match and play sports activities. “In a village which still lacks proper roads, Jitendra got a running track constructed in his senior secondary school Dhamanda,” he stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
