If you thought the bureaucracy is full of heartless people who are bothered only about their posts and their work, think again. When an 87-year-old farmer from a village in Solapur travelled 50km to meet the collector, he realised he couldn't climb up the two-storeyed district headquarters building, to do so. That is when Collector Rajendra Bhosale himself went down to meet the elderly Chandrakant Deshmukh.

Deshmukh and his 45-year-old daughter, Sharmila, are awaiting nearly R8 crore compensation from the government, as part of their family land was acquired by the administration for road widening.