Eight years after Dahi Handi was first officially listed as an adventure sport, Maharashtra government on Thursday reiterated the status, making the competition of erecting human pyramids a regular sport like kabaddi, kho-kho, etc. 

The adventure sport status was declared in 2015-16 by the Devendra Fadnavis government’s sports minister Vinod Tawde. A committee of Govinda organisers, which included political leaders Ashish Shelar, Jitendra Awhad, Pratap Sarnaik and others, was formed to make policy and rules. Shelar had even organised a competition in his Bandra constituency for at least three years.