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Mumbai: BMC kids warm up to wrestling and taekwondo, train like champs
Updated On: 19 August, 2018 12:00 PM IST | Mumbai | Anju Maskeri
Restricted to mostly PT drills until now, BMC students warm up to wrestling and taekwondo, thanks to the efforts of a non-profit organisation
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Children practise wrestling at Vikhroli's MPS School. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
Till about eight months ago, the sprawling assembly hall at the municipal-run Varsha Nagar MPS School in Vikhroli, barely saw footfall. Today, it's one of the busiest sections on the premises, teeming with children practising tumbling exercises, pinning drills and other wrestling moves on the mats. The transformation is the result of a new initiative by Heed India, an NGO that has started providing training in various sports including boxing, kabbadi, handball, taekwondo, table tennis and basketball to students across 25 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) schools.
"On the first day, only nine students turned up. Today, we have over 50 and the number is only growing. In fact, there hasn't been a single dropout," says Ramesh Dhotre, head coach and a national-level basketball player, who is responsible for overseeing activities across the BMC schools that have enrolled for this programme. Currently, the programme caters to students from Std V to Std X.
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