been very
positive.

"We have a full house for the first
week's coaching and are well on the way to filling up the other three
weeks,” said SRAM Secretary Mahendra Agarwal. The public court concept
had been mooted for some time but had not gone through due to a number of
reasons. In all, three courts will be available to the public. The other
two are under repair and should be ready by 15th August.

The funding for the project has been
provided by the Mid-Day Multimedia Group. Their chairman, Khalid
A.H.Ansari, is President of SRAM and a driving force for the game in the
state. The complex has been named The Mid-Day A.H.Ansari Squash Academy.
The cost of repairing the three courts is in the region of 600,000 Rupees
(approximately ten thousand pounds sterling).

Up until now, the game has beenconfined
to the private clubs and the armed forces. But, with the arrival of public
courts, the SRAM is looking to take the game to the masses. Today Bombay
has just over 50 courts. But it has to be said that there has been a major
thrust forward with courts being built in several parts of the state of
Maharashtra. It is worth noting that Bombay has been considered as the
home of Indian squash. Back in the 1940s, Hashim Khan won the Western
India title at the CCI courts and since then, there has been a regular
flow of champions from the metropolis.

Sah and Sanghi,
Mumbai's leading automobile dealers, have come forward to extend support
to the rapidly expanding sporting facilities of Mumbai Police at Marine
Drive and elsewhere in the city. Ranjan Sanghi, executive director of Sah
and