At a time when children abandoning their parents has become quite common, the efforts of an IAS officer to help his aging father who runs a paan shop in Sivasagar, Assam has earned him praises from people all over the place.
In the past few days, Rahul Gupta, an IAS officer, can be seen selling paans day in, day out at his father’s store Janata Paan Bhandar, in Sivasagar’s Dolmukh Chariali. Rahul, who is currently posted as the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Sonitpur district in Assam returned to his hometown during his holiday to help his aging father Om Prakash Gupta who has been running his shop for the past 50 years which is the only source of his income.
Meanwhile, this is not the first time that Rahul has been in the limelight. Last year, Rahul’s success story of being a Pan Shop owner’s son to score the 286th position in the UPSC examination caught the attention of people all over the country.