Ludhiana: Even as the boxing girls of Chakar village in Ludhiana district have continued winning medals and doing both state and country proud, with the change of government in the state, the promises made by the previous government to support budding players of the village have been forgotten.
In 2015, when Chakar girl Mandeep Sandhu had won a gold medal for the country in Junior World Boxing Championship in Taipei, then chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had announced to turn the Chakar Sports Academy (CSA) into an extension centre of the Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) training centre. Badal had also asked then deputy commissioner Rajat Agarwal to submit an action plan to make the village a sports hub.