Shanti Rana, 65, rears goats and stitches clothes to feed and educate her four school-going grandchildren.
The family of five lives in the Madanpur Khadar slum in southeast Delhi, and the children are enrolled in a Delhi government school. The children’s father — Shanti’s son — is dead and their mother does not live with them.
Last February, Shanti’s eldest grandchild, Kirti, paid Rs 1,800 to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to register herself for her Class X board exams, which were scheduled from May 4 to June 16.
With the exams now cancelled because of the Covid surge, Shanti wants the board to refund the money.