Schoolchildren in north Indian metros are less healthy than their counterparts in the rest of the country a report said Monday. The third edition of the 'EduSports School Health and Fitness Survey' covered over 49000 children in the age group of seven to seventeen years in over 100 schools in 54 cities across India. The assessments were done in the academic year 2011-12. ‘A higher incidence of obesity is observed among children from the northern states - Punjab Delhi/NCR (National Capital Region) Rajasthan UP (Uttar Pradesh) and Haryana as 24 percent of them have high body mass index (BMI) as