tournament in india they somehow came to know that i was into sports and creating awareness about sports for disabled the concept of wheelchair basketball excited me because it created a team environment and allowed people to interact and work as a team i realised this kind of sport can also help build leadership qualities in us then i took it up with my trust and we arranged few training camps as they brought coaches to teach the sport the camp turned out to be extremely successful with people coming in from nook and corner of the state and because of the impact it had on us we decided to spread awareness about the sport throughout the country and started wbfi in 2014 also international committee of the red cross gave us their support from the inception of wbfi this was a new sport for india though it was being played by few people in the rehabilitation centres we made it a competitive sport in indiawbfi was affiliated with international wheelchair basketball federation the very next year after inception this allowed our players to take part in international tournaments in 2015 we got an invitation from them for asia oceana zone level congress from then on we have been conducting courses every year in india involving international coaches and referees and that helped us develop the game better we also arranged introductory camps in several states to get people learn the sport this helped disabled people from different parts of the country get access to the sport from 2017 we started sending our teams to international tournaments we would have taken part in four international tournaments so far we are trying our level best to give our mens and womens team good exposurethough madhavi has been so successful in virtually introducing a sport to india she is facing a lot of challenges organising camps and courses we need proper equipements it would be wonderful if we get sports wheelchairs because it is extremely difficult to play the sport with a normal wheelchair as of now no one is manufacturing sports wheelchairs in india we are importing from outside and that is posing a huge challenge for us in all the international tournaments indian team is the only team playing with basic model wheelchairs if someone can sponsor our players it will be of great helpmadhavi says creating awareness about the health benefits disabled people get when they involve in sports is the priority parents are always afraid of letting their children out because they worry about them getting injured in playing field but if they come to know about the benefits and recognition their children get out of this they would be more than happy to send them play