Akhara and gym software in Charkhi Dadri
Balvira is akhara software in Charkhi Dadri, one of Haryana's smallest districts and one of its densest for wrestling. Almost everything here runs out of a village rather than a market, so the product asks for nothing an akhara does not have: no computer, no office, no monthly minimum and nobody sitting at a desk.
One person, one phone
The pehlwan who runs the akhara is usually also the coach, the treasurer and whoever answers the phone. Balvira does not charge per seat and does not assume a second person exists. It opens in a phone browser with nothing to install, and the same login does everything.
The lineage is the asset
An akhara's standing rests on who trained there and under whom, going back generations. Balvira keeps that as a tree rather than a field — each guru, who they learned from, and every shishya under them, with the dates. It is the part most likely to be lost when the person who remembers it is gone.
- Gurus who never signed in, and gurus no longer living, both recorded
- A shishya who moves between gurus keeps the earlier relationship dated
- Retiring a guru keeps the lineage; deleting one is refused if anybody trained under them
Dangal day without a laptop
Enter the wrestlers, weigh them in, and the brackets draw themselves with byes spread across the round rather than clumped at the top. Bouts are recorded standing at the mat, and the placings reach every wrestler's record the moment the day is closed.
Milk, ghee and almonds — the real running cost
Feeding a squad is the largest thing an akhara spends money on, and it is almost never written down anywhere useful. Balvira holds a diet against each wrestler and an expense book against the akhara, so what goes out on khurak sits beside what comes in from fees rather than being a figure in somebody's head. An akhara that knows its monthly cost per wrestler can ask a sponsor for something specific.
Questions from gyms in Charkhi Dadri
- What happens to an akhara's records if a guru leaves or dies?
- Balvira keeps a guru in the lineage permanently and marks them as no longer teaching rather than removing them. Deleting one is refused outright if any shishya trained under them, because that record belongs to the students as much as to the guru.
- Can a shishya's history under a previous guru be kept?
- Yes. Each discipleship is dated, so moving to a new guru closes the previous relationship rather than overwriting it. A wrestler's page shows who they train under now and everybody they trained under before, which is the whole point of recording a lineage.
- Can an akhara record what it spends on wrestlers' diet?
- Yes. Diet plans are kept per wrestler, and the akhara's spending — milk, ghee, dry fruit, mat repairs, electricity — goes in the expense book against a category. Set beside the fees collected in the same month, that gives a cost per wrestler rather than an impression.
