Inayat Khan, the District Magistrate of Sheikhpura, has also offered to “adopt” a girl child from two families.
Ms Khan, a Bihar cadre IAS officer, announced that she will fund the education of two girls, one daughter each of CRPF soldiers Ratan Kumar Thakur and Sanjay Kunar Sinha.
She also opened a website in Bihar and asked the people to donate for the cause.
“Whatever amount will be collected by March 10, we will divide and give it to their families. I want to appeal to the people to contribute as much as you can so that we can stand by their families at a time when they need our support,” she said.
Ms Khan said she is donating two days’ salary to the families of the two soldiers. “I have requested all government staff of my district to donate their one day’s salary to the families of the two martyrs,” she said.
“Ratan had told us that he would call by evening, soon after joining work in Srinagar. But we received a call from his superior instead, and it was to inform us about this terrible news,” said Niranjan Thakur, the CRPF constable’s father.
Over 40 CRPF troopers laid down their lives last week in a suicide attack by the Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed.
