New Delhi: His voice was thin, very boyily.
The 14-year-old lovepreet way calls a jamun buyer on a quiet track from Khanna, a city in Ludhiana district, you know at the same time that he is not an experienced vendor.
Class 10 students were forced by the situation to sell fruits and vegetables after his father died of kidney disease last August.
His mother, who worked as a domestic aid, had been sick.
With no one who runs the house, Lovepreet, who studies at the local school, must start working.
“I sell vegetables and fruits,” Lovepreet Toi said, pushing the cart.
But did he find time and energy to study? He shrugged and bit his lower lip, but did not give an answer.
His parents used to sell tea on the bus standing in Khanna City until last year.
“After the kuncian, they must stop,” he said.
Second among the four siblings, Lovepreep’s oldest sister is preparing for the 12th grade exam.
The only smartphone at home is divided between the four siblings for the study.
“I study and work …
I got around Rs 300 a day,” said the boy who erased the cart under the flyover near Samrala Road.
Lovepreet does not have a future plan for itself.
“I want to finish the study,” said the teenager, wiping his eyebrow sweat to his red shirt arm.
“For now, I have no choice but to work for my family.”