Kendrapara: Seven-year-old Mamata Dalai of Kendrapara district in Odisha will be felicitated with ‘Jeevan Raksha Padak’, a civilian livesaving award, on Independence Day in New Delhi.
She will receive the award from President Ram Nath Kovind for saving her elder sister from the jaws of a crocodile on April 6, 2017. “The Kendrapara district administration also handed over a cheque of Rs 1 lakh from the Rashtrapati Bhawan to her,” said Additional District Magistrate Basant Behera.
She, along with her sister Asanti, had gone to a nearby water body at Dangamala village in Kendrapara district to take bath when the crocodile attacked the latter.
Mamata dived into the water and pulled her sister out of the crocodile’s jaws.
She had earlier received the National Bravery award from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 24 this year.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also felicitated Mamata for her act of bravery.
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