Till about eight months ago, the sprawling assembly hall at the municipal-run Varsha Nagar MPS School in Vikhroli, barely saw footfall. Today, it`s one of the busiest sections on the premises, teeming with children practising tumbling exercises, pinning drills and other wrestling moves on the mats. The transformation is the result of a new initiative by Heed India, an NGO that has started providing training in various sports including boxing, kabbadi, handball, taekwondo, table tennis and basketball to students across 25 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) schools. `On the first day, only nine students turned up. Today, we have over 50 and the number is only growing. In fact, there...
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