Young mind thinks big, donates prize money to Army welfare
Riddiraj Kumar, a Class 3 student and an NRI from Kuwait, donated to the Indian Army Welfare Fund the entire prize amount of Rs 18,000.
New Delhi: He may be young but his gesture is huge.
Riddiraj Kumar, a Class 3 student and an NRI living in Kuwait, donated to the Indian Army Welfare Fund the entire prize amount of Rs 18,000 that he won in an international test.
Kumar, along with his mother, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Thursday and presented a cheque for the amount, the PMO said.
He had won 80 KD (Kuwait Dinars), equal to Rs 18,000, as prize money in the International Bench Mark Test for Improving Learning Award for Excellence conducted by the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER).
A student from Indian Educational School, Kuwait, Riddhiraj excelled both in Mathematics and Science, for Middle East, to win the prize money.
The prime minister congratulated Riddhiraj for his generosity and excellence in academics, the PMO said in a statement.
The prime minister also learnt that the boy has several innovative projects to his name, the PMO said.
The student's mother Krupa Bhatt told the prime minister that she is working on 'Every Child is Genius Project' and organising free seminars for the teachers in India, on identifying talents of the children, it said.
Modi also congratulated her for the commitment showing in spreading innovative learning projects.