As the dream of making ‘Dahi Handi’ an adventure sport got real for all the Govindas in the state, the Mumbai-based Govinda pathaks are gearing up for further preparations. After the Krishna Janmashtami festival, the committee members will soon start planning about visiting Spain to learn new techniques from Spain’s castells, a human pyramid popping culture.

On Thursday, the government declared ‘Dahi Handi’ as an adventure sport in the Assembly. For a few years, the Dahi Handi Samanvay Samiti (DHSS) committee has been requesting the Maharashtra government to make it an adventure sport so that they can have competitions and events to form human pyramids throughout the year rather than playing it only on the day of the festival.