Gaya: Bihar middle-school teacher Ravi Roshan earned rich dividends for his splendid effort of bringing his students to the IIM Campus to watch the Gatka competition in the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 Bihar.
The reward for the teacher and his students came in the form of a silver and four bronze of the home athletes.
Anshu claimed a silver in girls Single Soti (wooden stick) behind Punjab’s Tamanna (Punjab) while Akash Kumar Sharma (boys Farri Soti), Komal Jain (girls Farri Soti) and the Bihar boys and girls Farri Soti (Stick and Shield) teams made it to the podium in a testimony not only to Bihar’s bid to promote a range of sport but also the growing reach of the martial art from Punjab, as pe the SAI press release.
Ravi Roshan attempted to bring his students closer to indigenous sports. “They have been here a couple of days and there is an urge to embrace Gatka and Mallakhamb,” he said. “This is the first time Bihar is hosting KIYG. It will help sports immeasurably in the long run. I was hoping Bihar would get at least one medal in Gatka and I am delighted it was five,” he said.
Jainab Parveen, an eight standard student, summed up the influence of KIYG on Bihar in just a sentence. “After watching Gatka, I feel like taking up a wooden stick and participate in the sport myself,” she said, inspired by the Bihar athletes and those from the traditional strongholds of Chandigarh, Punjab and Delhi. (ANI)
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