Akhara Software in Charkhi Dadri: Dangal Records, Girls' Training, Gyms

Why does wrestling matter so much in Charkhi Dadri?

Because Balali village, in this district, is where Mahavir Singh Phogat trained his daughters and nieces into international wrestlers. Their story changed how many families in Haryana see girls in wrestling.

Charkhi Dadri became a separate district in 2016, carved out of Bhiwani; it has two sub-divisions and tehsils, Charkhi Dadri and Badhra, and a sub-tehsil at Baund Kalan, according to the district administration. Its best-known village in sport is Balali. The Federal reports that Mahavir Singh Phogat built a mud pit on his farm in the 1990s because girls were not allowed in the village akhara, that Geeta Phogat's gold at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games made her the first Indian woman wrestler to win one, and that the family's journey inspired the 2016 film Dangal.

Vinesh Phogat, who was also trained by Mahavir, calls Balali her native village, as The Tribune reported when she returned there in 2024. For akharas in the district today, the lesson is practical: talent is found young, trained for years, and proved in dangals. Keeping that journey on record is worth the effort.

Why should an akhara keep dangal records digitally?

So the coach can see a wrestler's whole competition history at a glance. Weights, opponents and results spread across notebooks and phone photos are hard to compare across seasons.

A coach deciding whether a 15-year-old should move up a weight category, or whether she is ready for district-level bouts, needs more than memory. A simple digital record answers questions like: How many bouts did she wrestle this season? At which weight? How did results change after she moved up?

Balvira, the gym and akhara software built by DVM Techno, records dangal entries by weight category, brackets and results, and gives each event a public spectator link that families can follow on a phone.

How can an akhara that trains girls keep records safely?

Link every minor's record to a parent or guardian, collect only what you need, and limit who on staff can see it. Families who trust you with a daughter's training expect the same care with her data.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the DPDP Rules, 2025 apply to the personal data an akhara collects. The Press Information Bureau notes that processing a child's personal data needs verifiable consent from a parent or guardian, and that the Rules give organisations a phased period of eighteen months to comply. Consult a lawyer for your specific case; this is not legal advice.

• Guardian contact on every minor's profile, with reminders and results going to the guardian's number.
• Family groups, so siblings training at the same akhara sit under one family record.
• Staff roles, so a part-time helper sees attendance but not personal details.
• Fingerprint attendance only with care: Balvira stores the reader's identifier, not a fingerprint template, but you still need to explain it to families.
• Private progress timeline: each member's progress stays visible to her, not to the whole akhara.

For more on biometrics, read our post on biometric attendance and the DPDP Act.

How do you run an akhara and a gym under one roof?

Keep them as separate branches with separate modes and accounts, under one owner login. The akhara and the gym have different members, schedules and income, even when they share a building.

Wrestlers need strength and conditioning, so an akhara may add a weights room or work with a nearby gym, and a gym owner may add a mat area for kushti. Either way, mixing the two in one register causes confusion: gym members get akhara schedules, and guru-dakshina ends up counted as membership fees.

In Balvira each branch is set to gym mode or akhara mode, and expenses and P&L are tracked per branch, so the owner can see whether the gym is supporting the akhara or the other way round.

How should a week of kushti, dand-baithak and gym work be scheduled?

Give each type of session its own schedule entry, so attendance shows what a wrestler actually trained, not just that she came.

A single tick in a register says a shishya was present. It does not say whether she spent the morning on mat work or on mugdar swings. When sessions are logged by type, the coach can spot a wrestler who keeps skipping conditioning, or a group that has had no live wrestling for a week before a dangal.

• Kushti: mat or pit sessions, by age group or weight.
• Dand-baithak: bodyweight conditioning blocks.
• Mugdar and gada: traditional club and mace work.
• Malkhamb: pole work, where the akhara offers it.
• Gym strength sessions: logged as workouts with progression tracking.

Balvira lists kushti, dand-baithak, mugdar, gada and malkhamb as schedule types, and tracks workout plans and progression. Diet plans can be stored, but the software records them; it does not prescribe.

How do you track a young wrestler's progress over several years?

Keep one continuous record per wrestler from the first day, covering attendance, training, weight category and dangal results. Talent in wrestling shows over years, not weeks, so the record has to last that long.

A child who joins an akhara at nine or ten may not wrestle a serious dangal until her teens. In between, the coach watches how regularly she trains, how her strength work progresses and how she handles her first bouts. When all of that sits in one timeline, a coach taking over a group, or a guru reviewing the season, sees the full picture instead of guessing.

1. Attendance by session type, so gaps in conditioning or mat work stand out.
2. Workout plans with progression, so strength gains are visible month by month.
3. Weight category history, taken from each dangal entry.
4. Results by season, to show whether she is improving against similar opponents.
5. A private progress timeline the wrestler can see herself, plus streaks in the member app to keep her coming.

What do akharas in Badhra, Baund Kalan and the villages need?

Simple, cash-friendly records that work on a phone and survive a weak signal. Village akharas often have no front-desk computer or full-time clerk.

Beyond Charkhi Dadri town, the district has blocks at Badhra, Baund and Jhojhu, and villages such as Balali and Jhojhu Kalan. In that setting:

• Cash should be a normal payment method with a receipt, not an exception.
• Guru-dakshina should be recorded as its own payment, never as a due.
• Check-ins and payments should save offline and sync later without duplicates.
• A daily line from the guru in the member's language, such as Balvira's Guru Ke Bol, keeps shishyas connected on days they cannot come.

If your akhara wants its own site to share results and admissions, see our website development in Charkhi Dadri page.

How Balvira Can Help

Balvira is gym and akhara software built by DVM Techno. For Charkhi Dadri akharas it keeps dangal entries and results by weight category, guardian-linked records for young wrestlers, kushti and dand-baithak schedules, and separate gym and akhara branches under one login. Read more on our gym and akhara management software page, or start the 7-day free trial with no credit card.

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