Sarayu Velpula gets the YouTube Membership fund for the month of January 2022
Sarayu Velpula is an example of how a tremendous talent's progress can be slowed down because of lack of funds. Born in 2006, the young girl from Warangal, Telangana is currently rated around 1900. However, her talent is massive and this is attested by the fact that she has won two national titles (under-11 and 13) and beaten many top Indian juniors like Divya Deshmukh, R. Vaishali, Varshini, Savitha Shri, Rakshitta and many more. In order to help her speed up her progress and give her more opportunities, Sarayu gets the January 2022 YouTube fund of Rs.55,853. We also have two donors who combined have contributed Rs.15,502 additionally, which brings the amount to Rs.71,355.
ChessBase India runs a YouTube channel which is frequented by millions of people. We have a membership program where all the money is spent to help one talented chess player in need of these funds each month. We began this initiative in December 2020 and towards the end of the article you will find all the links of the previous months where the YouTube membership funds have been utilized to help talents. The memberships on the channel are divided into 5 tiers:
In the month of January 2022 we have had 299 members. We have 62 pillars, 2 promoters, 22 supporters, 32 boosters and 181 backers of Indian chess. These are the details of all of them:
Member | Amount | Current level | |
1 | Avik Bose | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
2 | HT TV | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
3 | Just A Famous Guy | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
4 | Anondo Das Gupta | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
5 | Kalpak Raut | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
6 | Mrityunjay Jalan | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
7 | Pushpjeet Cholkar | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
8 | Om Prajapati | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
9 | Phoenix514 | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
10 | Prathamesh Mahajan | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
11 | puneet bhatia | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
12 | Sam Thomas | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
13 | Tejas Chitnis | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
14 | Joy Dutta | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
15 | Vivaswan Damle | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
16 | Asim Khan | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
17 | Shashwat Mishra. | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
18 | Jay Khunt | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
19 | Sambit Ghosh | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
20 | Mr VG | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
21 | chiranjibi sahoo | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
22 | Naveen Bharathwaj | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
23 | Vignesh Subramanian | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
24 | Abhishek Deshpande | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
25 | Ashwin S. Hebbar | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
26 | Madhuchethan Rao | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
27 | Vishwajeet Dagar | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
28 | Swapnil | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
29 | Mihir Sawant | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
30 | Vamsi Chada | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
31 | Ravi Chan | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
32 | Pranav Kulkarni | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
33 | Rohit Bhangale | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
34 | Naveen Kumar | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
35 | damnit | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
36 | shreyas gokhale | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
37 | Manaswi Mishra | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
38 | Shashank Srikant | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
39 | Swehil | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
40 | sanket panaskar | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
41 | Saurabh Dhamnaskar | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
42 | nishant panigrahi | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
43 | nabh choudhary | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
44 | nutan dutt | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
45 | Ajin Cherian | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
46 | Sriraam Ramakrishnan | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
47 | Aditya Desai | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
48 | Dan Ruparel | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
49 | ruchir sutaria | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
50 | RahulMukerji09 | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
51 | Tony Dary | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
52 | Ankita Kulkarni | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
53 | Sminil Mahajan | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
54 | Anas Edacherry | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
55 | KolonNiki | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
56 | shyammsm | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
57 | Dharmen Shah | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
58 | Zeus | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
59 | Keith Mascarenhas | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
60 | Siddharth Ranadive | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
61 | Sudarshan Rangan | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
62 | Ajeet prsingh | 799 | Pillar of Indian Chess |
63 | Eesha Dutta | 599 | Promoter of Indian chess |
64 | Lakshya | 599 | Promoter of Indian chess |
65 | varun kamble | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
66 | Mohith T S | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
67 | Pratik Shetty | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
68 | PR1712 | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
69 | vaibhav bhat | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
70 | Shashi Bala | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
71 | Arvind Ramnath | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
72 | Manu Talwar | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
73 | Kaivalya Shah | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
74 | Murali Phani | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
75 | Arunava Bhattacharjee | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
76 | Arvind Raman | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
77 | Indian From South | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
78 | rutvij bhavsar | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
79 | hellking4u | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
80 | Rajeev Ranjan | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
81 | Nishaad Rao | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
82 | Sai Gudigundla | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
83 | Sanu Pillai Vlogs | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
84 | kshitiz lohani | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
85 | Sachin Ranade | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
86 | Gokul Ramanathan | 299 | Supporter of Indian Chess |
87 | Mrinmay | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
88 | Sandeep Roy | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
89 | Ipw Law | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
90 | Vardhan Nagarkar | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
91 | Gaurav Chandiramani | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
92 | Rakshank Savadatti | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
93 | Ivan Mukherjee | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
94 | Swapnil Sharma | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
95 | FlashBin Gaming | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
96 | abjunior | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
97 | Sumit Nahata | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
98 | SUDARSHAN K M | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
99 | avant jain | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
100 | Diljeet Singh Narwal | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
101 | Krishna Pandit | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
102 | WoT Hog | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
103 | Pratyush Sharma | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
104 | Sudheer Kumar | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
105 | Kappa 322 | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
106 | Himanshu Bhasin | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
107 | Mann Sareen | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
108 | SATHISH KUNCHIVEEDU | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
109 | Jai Pandit | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
110 | Prakhar Gupta | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
111 | Ankush Dhyani | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
112 | BunnyEatWorld | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
113 | Akshit Johry | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
114 | Tanmay Devi | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
115 | Yash | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
116 | Akshay Shenoy | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
117 | Mahesh Parab | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
118 | Siddharth Sen | 199 | Booster of Indian Chess |
119 | Purva Sawant | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
120 | Sachin K Johnson | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
121 | Ishan Rai | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
122 | Nakul Santpurkar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
123 | aman jain | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
124 | Sumanth Shindgi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
125 | SUPRIYA KAPAS | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
126 | sagar vaidya | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
127 | Swapan Karmakar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
128 | Ryan Berg | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
129 | Soham Pandya | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
130 | Dhairya Kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
131 | Javed Akram | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
132 | Hitansh Shah | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
133 | Sharat Goswami | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
134 | Nischay Kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
135 | Sarvesh Deshpande | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
136 | Kashi Sah | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
137 | BHAGYASHREE KADUSKAR | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
138 | Amit Nakod | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
139 | Ninad O | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
140 | Nishchay Shah | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
141 | Hamza Firoz | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
142 | Raj Agarwal | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
143 | Saurabh Verma | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
144 | Phoenix Asimov | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
145 | Karan Yogi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
146 | Kavita Kanetkar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
147 | Arjan Singh Bhatty | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
148 | franklin abraham | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
149 | Neetish Thakur | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
150 | Sayantan Ghosh | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
151 | The Average FPL Manager | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
152 | Sv Scibi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
153 | Hrushikesh Patil | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
154 | Tathagata Guha | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
155 | Akshay Telang | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
156 | Arun J | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
157 | Rishikesh Kanegaonkar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
158 | Shubh Kela | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
159 | Mahanthi Bukkapatnam | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
160 | palash nagdevte | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
161 | Darin N. | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
162 | M3 | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
163 | Amey Kulkarni | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
164 | Billakanti Nikhil | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
165 | Shamika Dalvi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
166 | vijay bhuskute | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
167 | Gargeya RRS | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
168 | d4 player | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
169 | Karthik Velturi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
170 | Hardik Thacker | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
171 | nimit sharma | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
172 | ARUN SHAJI | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
173 | Neeraj Nambudiri | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
174 | Ranjank_Ranjith | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
175 | Akul S | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
176 | rahul yadav | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
177 | Snigdho Bhattacharya | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
178 | Harsh Kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
179 | Krishna Subramanian | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
180 | Akash 13 | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
181 | stpalli | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
182 | hsihsahenS | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
183 | Mandar Junnarkar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
184 | Vikram Panigrahi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
185 | rk Thevar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
186 | SomeoneSpecial447 | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
187 | Karthik | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
188 | Rohit Sajeev | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
189 | vijay kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
190 | Chinmay | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
191 | Prashanth Juluru | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
192 | Naman Dhingra | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
193 | Meet Modiani | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
194 | Avinash Pawar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
195 | Jaisai Krishnan | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
196 | Sachin | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
197 | Indrajeet Devale | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
198 | Tushar Dahake | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
199 | pierre gravagna | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
200 | Lovesh Tulsija | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
201 | Bustanul Arifin | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
202 | Chinmay Kelaskar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
203 | Vinit Mamania | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
204 | Nikhil Goyal | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
205 | DarkMorning. | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
206 | Akshay P | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
207 | Pratyayan DasGupta | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
208 | orangelava | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
209 | Aditya Bankar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
210 | BeastStats | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
211 | Sumalya Bhattacharya | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
212 | d s | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
213 | Kimaya Virle | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
214 | D SANDEEP | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
215 | Karini Sandeep Kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
216 | Vishal09 | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
217 | Chaliceter | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
218 | Aditya Jadhav | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
219 | Gaurab | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
220 | Abhishek Rai | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
221 | Arshad84 | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
222 | Rabia Singh | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
223 | Akshay Kulkarni | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
224 | Parth Thakkar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
225 | harshit vora | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
226 | anmol welpulwar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
227 | Akshat | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
228 | agam dixit | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
229 | Srinivasan Gopalan | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
230 | sarat pavan | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
231 | Deepesh Kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
232 | Soumyaranjan Mishra | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
233 | Anirvan Sengupta | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
234 | Tube or Not Tube | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
235 | shas k | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
236 | Gunin Khanna | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
237 | Rahul Arvind | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
238 | gobletFire | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
239 | Mihir Hasabnis | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
240 | Nitin Desai | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
241 | Bhavik Makan | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
242 | Aravind Pathapati | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
243 | Jalaj Kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
244 | Anand C U | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
245 | Rahul Ghosal | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
246 | David James | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
247 | Bhargav Srinivasan | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
248 | Sandeep Madheshiya | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
249 | Nagesh Anthati | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
250 | Rajat Kamtekar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
251 | Chairab Madaan | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
252 | devan sra | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
253 | Krishna Char | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
254 | ScaleTale | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
255 | Muralikrishna Gangaraju | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
256 | Abhishek Desai | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
257 | Shaurya Mathur | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
258 | Naveen | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
259 | vedaant rana | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
260 | Gokul | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
261 | SANSAR RANA | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
262 | Shiva Kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
263 | Jay Dave | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
264 | Raghava Madhwapathi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
265 | Yash Tandon | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
266 | Pranti Bordoloi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
267 | Srinath Narayanan | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
268 | K.V.P.Varma Kuchelapaati | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
269 | Dhandeep Lodaya | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
270 | Kartik | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
271 | Akshay Natu | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
272 | Smita Acharya | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
273 | Henal Merchant | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
274 | Sai Praveen Gummadi | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
275 | 2856Rohit | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
276 | Swapnil Sen | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
277 | thiedevil | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
278 | Chandrasekhar S. | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
279 | Abhishek Agarwal | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
280 | arun Taccode | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
281 | Phani Varma | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
282 | Raj S | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
283 | Pratip Rao | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
284 | Shubham Shah | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
285 | Chetan Suresh | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
286 | Kumar Roy | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
287 | Harjaap Singh | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
288 | Siddhant | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
289 | Hardik Rudani | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
290 | Aseem Goel | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
291 | Anusheela Das | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
292 | Snehal Pathak | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
293 | N M | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
294 | Neo0889 | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
295 | GizmoGirl | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
296 | Mayur Gondhalekar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
297 | Anish Kumar | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
298 | Shyamal patel | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
299 | Rijoy Mukherjee | 89 | Backer of Indian Chess |
The total amount comes to Rs.55,853 after YouTube's 30% deduction. All of this amount will go to Sarayu Velpula, the young talent from Telangana.
Sarayu Velpula, the two time National Champion
I like to call Sarayu - the girl who is always smiling. Meet her at any tournament and she will greet you with warmth and laughter. The youngster from Warangal, Telangana learnt chess from her father Sampath. Her father is a farmer and also a RMP doctor. Sarayu's mother Rajitha is a home-maker and she has a younger sister Sharanya. Taking care of the entire family and Sarayu's chess career has not been an easy task financially for Sampath. In spite of all the difficulties, Sarayu's love for chess has shone through. She has two national titles under her belt (under-11 and under-13) and she has beaten very strong players who have gone on to become the best in Indian chess like Vaishali, Divya, Savitha, Rakshitta and many others. Sarayu had also taken a break from her academics to fully focus on chess. Once when I interviewed her and asked her about her other hobbies apart from chess, all I could hear was silence for the next few seconds! The girl breathes, eats and lives chess!
Sarayu's first trainers were Sampath Bollam and V. Varun. They built up a strong foundation in her. Apart from building a strong foundation for her, they infused within her the love of the game. Now she is being trained by IM Ravi Teja and IM CRG Krishna. Speaking to them about Sarayu, IM CRG Krishna says, "Sarayu is an original talent. She has a natural instinct and intuition for the game. One of the few players I have seen who has a natural aggressive style of play. I feel if guided well and supported well financially, she can be a WGM in no time." IM Ravi Teja adds, "These days, it's very important that you play abroad events frequently to get your consistency going. This involves a lot of money. I always feel exposure is important for a chess player's career. If you play with the same players again and again, it doesn't help your career." CRG Krishna, Vinay Kumar Matta and Ravi Teja, on behalf of Project Knowledge Chess Academy have been working with Sarayu for the past 2-3 years. They don't charge any fees from her. "We just want her to achieve great heights," says CRG.
Born in 2006, Sarayu is 15 years old. Her current LIVE rating is 1915. But she is highly under-rated. Check out some of her games from the past years and you will see why we have so much faith in her. In the games below you will find her wins against some of the best rising talents of Indian chess:
Nandini Srikar and her family contribute
Nandini Srikar is a very well-known singer and performer. Some of her songs in Bollywood have been critically acclaimed like Jo Bheji Thi Duaa from Shanghai and Bhare Naina from Ra One. A year or so ago, she started developing keen interest in chess. Nandini and her husband Brig. K.Srikar started following ChessBase India in order to learn more about the game. On one of the recent livestreams when I was speaking about Sarayu and other talents who are in need of funds, Nandini decided to chip in! "I enjoy playing chess and learning about it", says Nandini. "It's too late for me to pursue chess professionally, but I am in awe of the youngsters like Sarayu who are following their passion. And I would like to help them." Nandini and her family decided to contribute Rs.25,000. Half of this amount - Rs.12,500, will go to Sarayu and the remaining half of Rs.12,500 will go to the player whom we support with the February fund. A big thanks to Nandini and her entire family for their thoughtful gesture of supporting upcoming chess talents of the country.
We also received a contribution of Rs.3,002 from Mr. Ajit Kumar Sharma from Rajasthan. While making the contribution he had mentioned that this amount should go to the beneficiary for the month of January. With Ajit and Nandini's contribution the total amount that will be given to Sarayu is Rs.55,853+ Rs.15,502 = Rs.71,355. This amount will be used by her to plan tournaments outside India, which will help her to grow as a player.
Previous coverage of Sarayu Velpula
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