Satyendra Dubey lives on, thanks to his friend

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. This has been proved by Vikram Kaul, a US-based technocrat friend of Satyendra Dubey, an engineer of National Highway Authority of India who sacrificed his life in 2003 for the sake of honesty.

To commemorate the values of Dubey, Kaul has funded the establishment of a library-cum-computer training centre for school students at a remote village Kohair in the naxal-affected Tundi block of Dhanbad. Kaul wants to inspire the next generation to follow the ideals of the honesty of Dubey, who was killed by a nexus of corrupt politicians, contractors and bureaucrats

The Centre is established with the coordination of Rameshwar Prasad, a retired officer of Associated Cement Company, Sindri, who is presently a full-time social worker. The Centre, which is a single-storey building equipped with a bench, desk and a computer, will be operational every day for four hours.

Talking to The Telegraph Online Prasad said, “The building was earlier being used by us for operating a single teacher school to educate children. Since the establishment of a government school in a nearby locality, the school has lost its utility. So now we have converted it into a library-cum-computer training centre with the help of Kaul. He is engaged in a lot of philanthropic activity and particularly funding the education of students of the economically backward section of the society, through different organisations like Foundation for Excellence with his friends.”