Gaming channel earns BMC school student YouTube Creator Award

Amid the Covid pandemic when schools went online, Ankit Singh, then a 13-year-old student of Shastri Nagar Mumbai Public School (MPS) in Santacruz, created a YouTube Channel on gaming tutorials.

Three years on, after crossing 342K subscribers, his channel Ankit Gamerz has won the teenager, the son of a watchman, the YouTube Creator Award – a play button awarded by the service to recognise its most popular channels.

As the BMC School Education department felicitated him for the achievement on Tuesday, Ankit, now 16, was happily taken aback to see his teachers congratulating him.