She defies age with ‘precision’

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Chandro Devi, a septuagenarian shooter, who leaves everyone watching her practise with awe and surprise.

A resident of Johri village in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh, she has been living in Sirsa these days in Dera Sacha Sauda, where she trains girls in Shah Satnamji Girls Senior Secondary School and Shah Satnamji Girls College in rifle shooting.

Addressed as “dadi” by those living around her, Chandro Devi is a sharp shooter even at this age.

She was in her early sixties, when she first started learning this art.

“I once went to a shooting club at Johri with my two granddaughters, where they learnt shooting and I tried my hand at a gun. After coming back home, I expressed my desire to learn shooting, but was ridiculed. However, my husband Bhanwar Singh supported me and I started learning the art of rifle shooting,” Chandro Devi said talking to The Tribune.

Since then she has not looked back and even at this age she can aim at any object with precision.

Chandro Devi has won gold medals in veteran sports events in Ahmedabad and Bangalore and has exhibited her talent on several other occasions.

She was among several talented women honoured by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on the occasion of International Women’s Day last year.

Despite her talent, Chandro Devi has a regret in life.

“The only regret is that I do not know English,” Chandro Devi says.


http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090601/haryana.htm#7

[The Doc]

Bravo !!

[dr.jayakumar]

they should have honoured her with a licence and a gun.