Kolkata: Ira Basu – Sister 70 years from former Bengal Buddhadeb Head Minister, Mira’s wife – who has lived on the sidewalk in the northern suburbs of the city, shifted to the city mental hospital by the Barrackpore police on Friday.
Basu, a retired school teacher, has been homeless for several years since then, he accused him of being expelled from the house of a former principal, where he lived after the ex-death of it.
Ira retired from a government school in 2009 and was entitled to a monthly retirement, which he had not claimed.
Toi call the telephone house at the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee residence but the call was missed.
The problem was revealed after a group of students made of basu on the sidewalk under the Dunlop flylover on the teacher’s day at 5.
September after the image became a viral on social media, many were advanced to help him, saying he refused.
No need for money and enough to survive.
According to the local population in the Dunlop area, Ira never begged or received money but lived on the sidewalk in the Baranagar and Dunlop area.
He will make the point to buy food from a local restaurant and never accept alms.
According to Middle School teachers Khardah Priyanath Girls, where he taught, Ira has become a sincere teacher.
But for the past few years his work, “he will often come to school without footwear, wear dirty clothes and look unwell.
He starts living with a former principal at the last house after his retirement.
But a few years later, after the death of the principal, He moved to the sidewalk in Bararagar and had lived on the road since then, “said a former colleague.
He added that even though Ira was entitled to retire, he had not claimed it.
But the former principal with whom he lived, helped him get tactics fund contributions.
Krishnakali Chandra, headmaster at this time, added that even though Ira was entitled to retire, she had not claimed it.
On Friday, Barrackpore School District Inspector asked Chandra to submit the bodies to process their retirement payments.
Mental Health Activists and Ratnaboli Psychologist Clinics Ray said: “He has lived on the sidewalk with dignity for years.
He has made a bank transaction.
Then why did he take it? It fully violates the mental health law.”