The Rural Development Trust (RDT) has observed the growing popularity of basketball throughout India and was looking to include the sport in its already well established sport for development program, the Anantapur Sports Academy (ASA). This would not only promote basketball in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, but also further strengthen the claim of its vision to establish an already blooming sporting culture in the region, that the ASA has worked very hard, along with the support of other partners and supporters, to achieve.