RANCHI, Oct. 7 -- A heartwarming video clip of a widowed mother running a 1,600-metre sprint barefoot at a practice session before a recruitment drive for home guards in Jharkhand's Ramgarg district has touched millions of viewers online.

Kavita Mahto completed the course well ahead of the official time limit, said Ajay Karmali, director of the HMT Physical Academy, Dulmi, after the video clip of the trials conducted on its premises on October 4 went viral.

The trials was arranged to help applicants prepare for an upcoming home guard recruitment drive to select 284 home guards at the same grounds from October 24 to November 5.

Karmali said Mahato completed the 1600-metre race in 7 minutes, ahead of the required 10-minute mark.

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