Dausa : A farmer family in Dausa has immersed their mother’s ashes in the fields instead of immersing them in Gangaji. In fact, Kishni Devi, wife of Kishori Patel, died on November 30 at the age of 85 in Thikaria village of Sikrai subdivision. He was very fond of farming and planted many fruitful and shady trees. She wanted to make her bones a part of that soil. By eating and drinking whose food and water he maintained his family.
In such a situation, Kishni Devi’s sons Jaganmohan and Vimal Kumar, as per the wish of their mother, immersed her ashes with their family and relatives by running water in the fields. He told that his mother had a special love for farming and she used to say that after her death, my ashes should be washed away by running water in the fields. Mother’s entire life was spent in farming. Therefore, this initiative has been taken to fulfill the wish of the mother.
Son IRS, grandson IAS Dharam Singh told that Kishni Devi was a strong-willed and hard-working woman. Who taught the children of the family along with farming. His younger son Vimal Kumar is a senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer and grandson Parikshit is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer.
During the immersion of the ashes in the fields, the family members told that they are not against tradition but against ostentation. People spend unnecessarily in the name of rituals and ostentation in order to show off. If expenditure has to be made then it should be spent on educating daughters because only educated people make efforts for social reform.
IRS Vimal Kumar, son of the deceased, said that the funeral feast is an unnecessary expense and instead of funeral feast and other unnecessary rituals, he considers it appropriate to spend the money on girl education and development of library in the village.
