Poorna Malavat, the world's youngest girl from Telangana to scale Mount Everest aims to scale 7 Summits by the end of June 2018

Hyderabad, August 27, 2017: Public spaces are difficult to find in the city. The moment we see an an empty space our politicians get all sorts of ideas. Our Chief Minister KC Chandrasekhar Rao wanted Bison Polo ground for Telangana-Secretariat. On one side we need grounds to build sports ecosystem. On the other side our politicians snatch away all the public places available says Jaya Bharthi, an Architect and a member of the ‘Hyderabad Bikerni’ group participating in panel discussion : " Role of Physical Literacy in Long -Term Athlete Developments & Sports" held as part of the Sports Carnival at ISB in Gachibowli on Sunday. She asked people to save sports grounds.

The event was one of the two events planned as part of the August Fest 2017, the Asias largest Sartup Festival.

We need more maidans than the stadiums added Jitendra Joshi, Co-Founder & Director SportzConsult, another panelist.

Kids are allowed to play just for 45 minutes a week in their PT class. We need to improve PT Classes to two or three in a week. Then only kids can have fitness. It is important for kids to play at least one hour every day. Unfortunately, public places are going into private hands and there are no playgrounds for kids to play said Vishala Redddy, moderating a Panel Discussion " Role of Physical Literacy in Long -Term Athlete Developments & Sports" held at ISB

Sports have direct link to happiness. We need massive participation from public to make India a sporting nation. Four things that will drive sports culture in India said Jitendra Joshi, are 01. Place to pay, 2. Time to play, 3. Coaches at all levles and 4. Competitions. We want kids to fall in love with sports, he said.

Participipating in the discussion, Jaya Bharthi said in the last few decades everything has been turning into sports. We are forgetting games. Word called games is going to go out of dictionary. Street games are usually simple play time activities for children which used to ensure some physical activity. That is not the case now, she said.

Akshay, Mr. India 2017, another panelist said fit body represents a very calm mind. Dont make things competitive for kids.

When asked to comment on measures to be taken in schools to improve physical activity among the children, panelists observed that Physical Education is not given importance. It is outsourced by many schools. Parents obsession for marks must end. Their mindset must be changed. Try to push sports at home for the family members. Use every available space at home to carry on sports. There is cycling done on the terrace of a building. Home drawing room is converted into a small sports arena, they observed.

There was another panel discussion: Football in India held. Yogesh Mauray, Co-owner of Fateh Hyderabad(AFC), a football club based at Hyderabad moderated the discussion. The Panlists of the dicussion were Hrishikesh, Director-Adidas; Pradhyum Reddy, Coach of FC Pune, Nikhil Sharma, CEO of Anglian Management Group, Gourmang, Indian Professional Football Player.

Hrishikesh observed that lot of kids play football, but they don’t make up to professional football. Access to high quality and consistent coaching is lacking in India. There is no well defined careerpath in our country. German kids play 10,000 hours of football by the time they reach 16years. It is not about winning. It is about participaption. We dont have culture of Football, like Cricket. There is a big gap in the knowledge of Football coaching, he informed.

As part of the Sports Carnival, an inspirational talk was arranged by Shekhar Babu, the mountaineereing gur uand his student Poorn Malavat, the youngest girl in the world to have reached the summit of Everest. Shekhar Babu is the first Indian Mountaineer to climb Mt. Everest as an Individual. Addressing the gathering he shared that his company Transcend Adventures is India’s Most preferred adventure company for mountaineering logistics helped put 34 Indians and 13 foreigners on the top of the Mount Everest.

Poorna said she wanted to prove that girls can do anything. She announced that her next goal is to scale 7 Summits by June 2018 located in 7 different continents. The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents. Summiting all of them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge. The Seven Summits achievement has become noted as an exploration and mountaineering accomplishment, which she wanted to achieve by next June.

She described her success to never giving attitude, her passion about mountaineering and dedication.

Shekhar Babu informed that it costs Rs 25 lakh to scale Mount Everest.

Speaking on the occasion, the Sports Authority of Telangana State (SATS) chairman Allipuram Venkateshwar Reddy said the plans to set up Sports University in Telangana was shelved sometime ago for the reasons unknown to me. But, i am pushing it now. I am planning to present the proposal to the Chief Minister when i meet him tomorrow. He is also proposing a Synthetic Track at Hakimpet Sports School. He is going to set up a meeting with Vice Chancellors of 13 Universities in Telangana State to discuss Synthetic Tracks in the Universities.

All former international players, Arjuna Award and Padma Award Winners, and all those veteran sports stars, former sports personnel must plan to set up sports academies in Districts. We want them to open academies in all the 31 districts of the state. Let there be District Academies for the individuals games. May be Kabaddi Academy in Mahboobnagar, Hockey in Vanaparthy and Archery in Adilabad Districts, he said.

Another proposal he is mooting to the State Government is 2 per job reservations for sports personnel. The only synthetic track exisiting in the city at Gachibowli stadium is bad condition. We will soon have a new one, informed Venkateshwar Reddy

Venkateshwar Redy was also opinion that the sports budget in the state must go up to Rs 100 to 150crores.

Venkateshwar Reddy informed that the cycling Senior Nationals and Volleyball Nationals will be held in Hyderabad. Very soon Telangana State will be the most happening state in sports, Venakteshwar Reddy assured to the sports lovers gathered in Sports Carnival held at ISB.