Pithoragarh: Last month, Nikita Chand, 15, won gold at the Asian Junior Boxing Championship in Dubai.
When he returned home, welcome, Gram Panchayat thought they had to do more to respect him and create inheritance.
So now, in Remote Badualu Village, every household will install a signboard with the name of their youngest daughter on it.
“We decided that the best way to respect Nikita and inspire other girls is to have the names of the youngest girls in the house of the house board,” Mahesh Joshi said, a member of the Sabha gram.
“It will also support the Beti Bachao program, Beti Padhao Government.” Home for around 150 families, Baduaru is 16 km from Pithoragarh on the way to the Nepal Dhulagarh border.
Nikita came home this week.
The air has become one of the celebrations since then.
“Nikita makes us proud.
We want all our girls to do the same thing,” said Bhagwan Chand, his uncle.
“His achievements are inspiration.
All girls here want to follow in his footsteps,” said Darshan Joshi, a class VII student.
Nikita is a class X student at a local school.
He was only 10 when he was seen by retired army personnel, Brijendra Malla, who had started the boxing academy himself.
“I have retired in 2004.
I got Nikita to practice here when she was 10 years old, in 2016,” said Malla.
That year, he opposed at the district level and in 2018, participated in the sub-junior-level championship in Haridwar.
The following year, he participated in the state sub-junior championship in Balaalghat in Nainital and won gold.
He played a national level school match in Delhi that year and in 2020, went to Khelo India in Guwahati, Assam.
“That year, he participated in the State trial in Almora and the national trial as well.
He took gold in both.
That was after the national trial he chose for the Dubai event,” Malla added.
But this, said Nikita, only marks the beginning of what he wants to do.
He added, “Next, I want to play a senior championship and youth.
Finally, I want to go to the Olympics and get my country’s gold.”