Wrestling become sport of Gorakhpur dist under One District One Sport

Gorakhpur: Wrestling has become the sport of Gorakhpur district under the One District One Sports scheme on the lines of the One District One Product(ODOP) scheme.
The regional sports officer Arunendra Pandey said, “Wrestling is the most popular sport of the district. The proposal was sent on 23 September and now with the government’s approval to the proposal a huge infrastructural development is expected in the district under the scheme.”
“There are more than 2 dozen akhadas (wrestling rings) in the district where sportsmen practice regularly,” he said.
Coach of the Indian wrestling team, Chandra Vijay Singh expressed happiness over the scheme and said that the new comers will be able to get the facilities and the district will produce more national and international level wrestlers.
Already the district has many international level wrestlers like Pehalwan panne lal yadav, Ramashray Yadav, late Janardan Yadan, Dinesh Singh, Rajnarayan Mishra, Chandra Vijay Singh etc.