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8-yr-old boy skips birthday party to donate money for Maharashtra CM's drought fund
Updated On: 13 March, 2013 09:14 PM IST | | PTI
In a touching gesture, an 8-year-old boy from Thane district decided to skip his birthday party and donate his savings and celebration expenses to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund in view of the state reeling under severe drought.
On the occasion of his birthday on Tuesday, Kanishk Raju Dongre, who studies in class II of Caramal School at Badlapur township in Thane district, went to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's office at Mantralaya in Mumbai and contributed Rs 5,000 to the relief fund, an official release from the Maharashtra government said.u00a0
He was accompanied by his mother and father, who is a photographer.
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