A five-day annual sports event ‘Shaurya-2020’ culminated with vibrancy and prize distribution at Friendship Sports venue at Hundru village under Chandankiyari Block of Bokaro district on Friday.

The concluding day witnessed exciting and captivating performances by the enthusiastic employees of Vedanta-Electrosteel Steels Limited, who participated in different sports events.

Speaking on the occasion Chief Executive Officer of the company, Pankaj Malhan, extended a warm welcome to all the participants and encouraged them to participate in sports for good health. “Sports develop team spirit which also teaches us management skills,” he added.

The event Shaurya-2020 was inaugurated on 18 February, includes several sports events include 100-meter race, 200-meter race, 400-meter race, relay race, marathon, walkathon, badminton, table tennis, high jump, long jump, shot put, carrom, javelin, tug of war and kabaddi, informed Vivek Anand PRO of Vedanta Electrosteel.

Among the winners Jitendra Kumar in both 100 and 200 meters race (men) and Anushka Kumari also in 100 and 200 meters race (women), Mahmud, Ashish, Soumyajit Pal, and Anand in the 400-meter relay (men), in women Anushka Kumari, Mamta Mandal, Pragya Shri, Vidya Priya, Mohammad Shabbir (men) and Kajal Singh (women) wins in long-jumps while in high-jumps Jitendra Kumar and Anushka Kumari, Abhishek Kumar and Ankit in (shot-put), Ansuman Samanta and Shruti wins the badminton doubles men and women respectively. Ranjan Pandey and Pragya in table tennis, Md Mahmud and Pragya Shree in Carrom, Sanjay Bauri wins the marathon race, informed Anand.

The Security department of the company won the Kabbadi and Tug of War matches while Manoj won the best photographer award.

Besides others, SLVP Ready COO of the company,  SBU Director Samar Suri, Sumit Burman, Kundan Karna, S Venkataraman,  Anand Reddy and a large number of officials and employees of the company were present on the occasion.