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.
Hazaribag: A 35-year-old woman and her 11-year-old son from Amnari village in Hazaribag’s Sadar block succumbed to their injuries sustained while lighting up a lantern at their home on February 14 using adulterated kerosene oil bought from the local PDS shop. They both died on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday at the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (Rims), Ranchi.
“Savita Devi died late on Saturday while her son Ayush Kumar passed away on Sunday morning,” Hazaribag DC Aditya Kumar Anand said. They were initially admitted to Hazaribag Medical College and Hospital (HMCH) and later referred to Rims after their condition worsened.