Mangalore: Harekala Hajabba, the illiterate orange seller who dreamt big and achieved it too, is now back on the streets of Mangalore,  in his old profession of selling fruits after the fruits of his toil, a primary school and a high school have come up at Harekala. Even the new building of the High School was inaugurated recently,

On Monday, Hajabba was back in Hampankatta area after a gap of almost ten months. Citing reasons for the same, Hajabba says he  had to take rest for a couple of months as he had sprained his hip  due to a fall at the construction site of the high school building.” I am back in my Kasubu,” he says.

Ask him if people recognize him now, he smiles and says  they do and also does not fail to add that his fruits are easily purchased and people do not bargain.

He also recollects some of his well wishers sending monetary assistance to him every month since several months. He also adds that when the school building was under construction, his son worked as a labourer and earned Rs 350 per day which  helped him eke out a living with his family comprising his wife, a son and two daughters.

It is hard to find someone like Hajabba, who  despite meager means of livelihood, used  the prize money of Rs 5 lakhs from CNN IBN Real Heroes Award to buy a plot for the high school, even when he did not have a good house to live.

It is high time, the society gifts this great social worker with a good house to live in comfortably and peacefully.