School kids and staff in the flood-hit villages of Mahad, Raigad have heaped praise on the Central Railway’s ticket checkers for distributing thousands of copies of Maharashtra Secondary Board textbooks for Stds V to X to ensure children’s studies are not affected.

“We are thankful to CR Mumbai’s ticket checkers for visiting and distributing books to flood-hit villages of Sawad, Bhorav, Akle, Kangule and Matwan, along with pens and stationery. They have generated a lot of goodwill by also felicitating SSC toppers at the school,” principal Jyotsna Mehta from Madhyamik Vidyalaya, Sawad, said in a written letter to the ticket checkers’ fraternity.