Neelam Kanta, a head constable with the Delhi Police has undergone endless struggles to make her son Nishchay reach this level in the sport.
In a country where cricket is treated as a religion, 18-year-old Nishchay Luthra opted for a lesser known sport in the country 'figure skating'. Luthra has won over 100 medals internationally and nationally. He is currently undergoing training in Florida for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2018 to be held in South Korea.
Neelam Kanta, a head constable with the Delhi Police has undergone endless struggles to make her son Nishchay reach this level in the sport. Kanta is reeling under a debt of around Rs 20 lakhs for which she has mortgaged her residence in Kalkaji as well.
"The only property we owned is the house we live in but have mortaged it for his career," said Sanjeev Luthra, Nishchay's father.
Nishchay began his career at the age of four when children are not even sure off what they want from their lives. From waking up at 3 am, to falling on ice multiple times, and recovering from injuries, his first pat on the back was a gold medal in Shimla in 2011 at the National Ice-Skating championship. He also won several other zonal and state level competitions by 2016.
The young lad has since then travelled to Hong Kong and the Philippines and won three medals in the Asian Junior Figure Skating challenge.
Nishchay's desire for a gold medal at the Olympics made him quit the reality show "India's Got Talent" mid way. "Nishchay decided to quit the reality show which could have earned him a lot so that he could keep his training on track and win medals for India at the Olympics. Ultimately my son wanted to bring a gold medal for India in Olympics," said Sanjeev
However, Nishchay's passion for the sport has now been put to halt because of financial constraints. Unlike Cricket and football, figure skating is an expensive sport to play.
"Union government funded us Rs. 10 lakh back in 2015 for his training but the sport needs much more for world class training. It would take more than 2 lakhs just to buy the desired shoes and blades for competitions like Winter Olympics. Moreover even after financial constraints we decided to train Nishchay in America but for last two months the institute has kept the training on hault, as we cannot pay for rest of the training" told Neelam who is presently serving as Head constable in the Delhi police's PCR unit.
Nishchay require more than four lakh rupees to train for one month in America. The crowd funding site Milap is gathering fund for the training of the boy, however the amount gathered by now is just around two lakh.
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