Champa, a Std 8 student from Lakshmipur village in Koderma district, Jharkhand, is playing hooky from school. It is the mahua flower season and she is getting ready to go picking, her pet goat in tow.
Mahua flowers fetch ₹40-50 a kg in the local market, hence children help enhance the family’s income during the flowering season
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