In a shocking development to Indian sports, Rishu Mittal, state level gold medallist boxer, is forced to work as a domestic help to continue her schooling. Whatever little she earns by working at the nearby bungalows is spent paying her school fees.
Rishu studies in class 10 and lives with her brother who works at a local shop. After she is done with her job in the morning she attends school and the evenings are spent practicing her skills as a pugilist.
"This girl has lost her parents. Her brother is doing a low paying job. She works at other people's home to survive," her coach Rajinder Singh said. Rishu hails from Kaithal in Haryana and dreams to make it big in boxing someday.
She won a gold medal in state level championship in 2014 in 46 kg category and represented Haryana during national championships in Gwalior last December. Earlier she had won bronze medals in Bhivani and Faridabad in the year 2012 and 2013 respectively. Rishu dreams to be like Olympic medal winning boxer Mary Kom.
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