Muktangan children shine, braving the Covid-19 pandemic

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In spite of a crippling lockdown in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic shutting down businesses and educational institutes all over India, students of Muktangan, a Mumbai-based non-governmental organisation, performed extremely well in the Standard 10th Board examinations held this year.
 
Last year, of the top seven Municipal school students in the SSC examination, six were from Muktangan. This year, one of the joint MCGM (Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai) toppers is a Muktangan student, and 11 students have scored more than 90 per cent.
 
Muktangan’s founder, Elizabeth Mehta, attributes the students’ success to the close teacher-student bonding