Malihabad: Walk through Boulevard with a solid mango tree, the interesting sound directs you to ‘squared circle’ where a group of petite girls in a boxing vest and busy shorts is busy punching hard from the mango tree trunk.
Age between 7 and 17, training boxers praised the marginalized background, some of his parents worked under Mgnrega or selling vegetables.
This emergency boxing facilities in the countryside of Malihabad, almost 43 km from Lucknow, has issued at least 10 district level boxers and one national level boxer in the Junior category, in recent years.
Apart from jousting in the ring for professional achievements, 87 boxers, especially women, have learned to protect themselves from attacks and attacks as well.
“I started with the intention of teaching boxing as a sport of selfdefence for girls but, for years, dozens of teenage boxers I had brought medals and glory,” said Mohammad Saif Khan, said their coach.
With his family mainly involved in Mango’s business, Khan has competed at the state level in Uttarakhand once.
The heartbreaking incident was about 15 years ago force this heavyweight boxer to shift the focus of mango agriculture to train martial arts techniques to girls.
“A young girl in my neighborhood was raped and I could not do anything to bring justice for him, because his family was afraid that disclosing information about sexual violence would bring a bad name to them,” Saif, who now empowers the girl’s daughter, said.
One of his students, Kamna Harur, 15, has won two district gold medals.
The youngest among the six sisters, he joined the Saif boxing center this January.