Bhubaneswar, July 8 : Wonder kid Budhia Singh seems to have gone missing from Bhubaneswar’s Sports Authority of India (SAI) hostel, who at the age of four ran 65 km between Puri and Bhubaneswar in 2006 and became a national talking point,
Budhia now studies in Class IX in the city’s DAV English Medium School, was supposed to return to the SAI hostel at the end of the summer vacation last month.
His coach, Rupanita Panda, said that she had sent two letters to Budhia’s mother, who stays in Saliasahi slum of Bhubaneswar, last month. But there has been no word on his whereabouts, she said.
Budhia’s elder sister, Sasmita Singh, said her brother had gone to their uncle’s place and may return later this month.
At the SAI hostel, the state government has been paying for his education, clothes and food. But Budhia did not seem to like staying in the hostel.
