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The National Wrestling Championship is being held in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, from July 3 to 5, 2011, organized by the Tamil Nadu State Amateur Wrestling Association. Its a moment of great pride for people of my district to welcome around 900 participants and 100 support staff from various states in India.

This was my first experience watching wrestling, and in my hometown with lots of people in the stadium, I was enthralled and stood/sat there for around 4 hours. I felt the organizing committee or the District Sports Management should have planned the event a bit more well to provide drinking water supply at least to players, as I found the whole stadium littered with plastic water bottles thrown around by players. Move a step and you'd step on a disposed can! There wasn't any trash can too. Being model for a plastic-free district at large, this didn't have any impact on our visitors. Though we needn't have shown placards of 'Quit Plastics,' wasn't it necessary that we kept a trash can at least?

Putting that aside, just many thanks to the Tamil Nadu Amateur Wrestling Association and the organizing secretary, Kalari Selvaraj, for bringing this event to Nagercoil.

Venue: Arignar Anna Stadium, Nagercoil

Entry Fee: FREE

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