Bhiwani boxers itching to get into khaki: Vijender, Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar

With the euphoria around their power-packed Olympic performance finally settling, the boxing trio of Vijender Singh, Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar are bracing up to take charge as the newest DSPs in Haryana while also trying to catch some sleep.

"It feels nice but we don't know which area we would be given charge of. There is a certain aura about this post, isn't it? I hope to do justice to the responsibility," Akhil, flanked by a security personnel who will now accompany him wherever he goes, said.

Among the three, Vijender is already eyeing his preferred posting.

"Given a choice, I would take charge of Gurgaon," said India's first ever Olympic medallist, a bronze winner in the middle weight category in Beijing.

The youngest of the three, Jitender is just happy to be a DSP at 20, in his second year of graduation.

"It's a great feeling, gives me an adrenaline rush. I have a security personnel with me all the time. Let's see what the job is all about," he quipped.

Being mobbed by adoring fans and attending felicitation after felicitation are part of their new routines and though exhausted, the Bhiwani bombers, as they are fondly called now, say they are more than happy to oblige any autograph hunter or photograph seeker.

"I used to practise my signature for this very day. And now that it is happening, it is surreal. Till about a few months ago we could pass through these streets completely unnoticed but now everybody turns around and recognises," said Akhil, a bantam weight quarterfinalist in Beijing, as he scribbled in Hindi for a fan.