Gorakhpur: Wrestling has become a Gorakhpur District sport under one side of one district one sports scheme in the one-product district scheme (Odop).
Arunendra Pandey’s Regional Sports Officer said, “Wrestling is the most popular district sport.
The proposal was sent on September 23 and now with the government’s approval of the large infrastructure development proposal expected in the district under the scheme.” “There are more than 2 dozen akhadas (wrestling rings ) In the district of sportsweight practicing regularly, “he said.
The Indian wrestling team coach Chandra Vijay Singh expressed happiness for the scheme and said that newcomers would be able to obtain facilities and districts would produce more national and international levels.
It has been this district has many international level wrestlers such as Panne Panne Lal Yadav, Ramashray Yadav, Final Janardan Yadan, Dinesh Singh, Rajnarayan Mishra, Chandra Vijay Singh etc.