The Deputy Chief Minister meets the Indradhanush children

On 21 November 2019 the Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Keshav Prasad Maurya, came to a Khushhali Foundation programme in Bareilly. Sixty-five of the Indradhanush children were there to meet him, and he handed each a sweater for the coming winter.

The Foundation told him about its work with the Gadhiya Lohar community: for five years it had taken responsibility for the education, nutrition and health of about 170 children of the community in and around Bareilly. He said that the community, descended from the armourers of Maharana Pratap, had wandered the country for generations, that the state government was working to settle them, and that the Foundation had set a milestone in social service by taking their children into the mainstream.

The next morning's newspapers carried the story under the headline "Efforts to bring the Gadhiya Lohars, descendants of Maharana Pratap, into the mainstream".