In a noble gesture rarely found in the society, East Singhbhum deputy commissioner Vijaya Jadhav came to the aid of an orphan girl belonging to the primitive Sabar community recently.

Vijaya not only did take steps to rear up the five-year-old orphan by getting her admitted to a city-based residential school but kept on showering motherly affection on the child, apparently trying to make her feel at home.

The orphan girl in question, Sombari Sabar, had already lost her father a couple of years ago and lost her mother just a fortnight ago.

As Sabar Tola at Galudih in the Ghatsila sub-division of the district where Sombari used to reside with her widow mother was on the local administration's radar given the vulnerability of the primitive tribe's population, the information about the widow Sabar's death had eventually reached to Vijaya within no time.

A sensitive deputy commissioner who gathered that the deceased widow had a daughter at a tender age and there was no one else to look after her, alerted her subordinates to get the 'Shradh' ritual done, and soon after the 10-day-long ritual was over, she brought the orphan under her patronage in the steel city.

After a thorough medical check-up, Sombari was finally put up at a government-run residential school in the Golmuri locality of the city on Friday. But before her admission to the school, the girl was brought to the deputy commissioner's office and residence more than once during which she was cajoled by Vijaya as a mother does to her own child.

"I want to see Sombari grow successfully like any other girl in our society. District administration will take all responsibility to rear her up as a perfect human being, " said Vijaya while talking to The Telegraph Online.

Significantly, the deputy commissioner also informed that she would organize a special health check-up camp at the pockets in Ghatsila and other areas of the district where Sabar and other primitive tribal population exists.

Vijaya pointed out that the administration will carry out a fresh survey of the people belonging to the primitive tribal communities and provide Indira Awash to those who are homeless.