Overview

• Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has instructed the Sports Department to expand insurance coverage after rising injury rates in the adventure sport event.
• The expanded scheme now spans participants from roughly 1,200 Govinda mandals across Maharashtra.
• Officials have doubled annual coverage from 75,000 to 150,000 participants following the festival’s adventurer sport classification.
• The Dahi Handi Coordination Committee led by Ashish Shelar successfully lobbied for the increase to ensure adequate accident protection.
• A Rs1.25 crore allocation from the State Sports Development Fund has been earmarked to underwrite the enlarged insurance policy.