S’garh girls to join nat’l football selection camp
PNS/Rourkela: Out of five girls from State, two girls of Sundargarh district have been selected to participate in sub-junior national women football team selection camp. Source said during state women sub-junior football championship Anjali Barua (14) and Namita Panna (14) of Jhartarang village of Sundargarh district attracted the attention of selectors with their performance and Football Association of Odisha (FAO) selected them for national selection probable. Both of them are students of Class-VIII. While Anjali’s father is a small farmer Namita’s father is a daily labourer. But despite their financial constraints they have been concentrating on their game. Besides support from family the credit goes to their coach Dilip Sunyani and help from Panposh Sports Association (PSA) and Chikatmati Gandhi Club on their success they reveal. If they get proper support from the state then in coming days they will be national star feel PSA President Rajesh Mohapatra and General Secretary Susant Behera.
Athletic Meet of Deepika Ispat Sadan celebrated
PNS/Rourkela: The Annual Athletic Meet of Deepika Ispat Sikshya Sadan was celebrated in the school premises on Monday. Manjari Prasad, President, Deepika Mahila Sanghati and Deepika Ispat Sikshya Sadan graced the closing ceremony as the Chief Guest. In her address to the gathering, Prasad said on the importance of sports to maintain good health. The need of the time is to give equal importance to academics and sports. Prasad and the other dignitaries presented prizes to the winners of the various events held earlier. It is worth mentioning here that Deepika Ispat Sikshya Sadan, a school set up by Rourkela Steel Plant for the underprivileged children of the Steel city, is being run by Deepika Mahila Sanghati, a leading philanthropic organisation of Rourkela. The students are provided with all the facilities required for studies free of cost. Nutritious mid-day meal is also being provided to them through the Akshaya Patra project of RSP. The school is a unique approach of RSP towards achieving its mission of holistic development through ‘Samvardhan’.
Jindal Vidyapeetha Annual Athletic Meet held
Angul: The Two-day long 5th Annual Athletic Meet of Jindal Vidyapeetha, culminated by leaving lots of smile and joy on the faces of the students of the school, situated at Badamahitala R&R colony of Jindal Steel and Power ltd, Angul. This extravaganza was kicked off on Tuesday by hoisting of school flag by the Chief Guest Dr. Saroj Kumar Mahapatra, VP- HR & ES, JSPl and followed by welcome speech by the School Head-Mistress Deepti Rekha, rendition of school song by the students, a torch rally and march past by the pupils in presence of District Sports Officer Mahendra Kumar Sahu as Chief-Guest of the programme along with other eminent personalities like S. K Sharma, AVP, CSR&R and others. As 250 number of students from across the classes, participated in various events like running, long Jump, discus throw, skipping, etc. and won different prizes in respective categories.
Besides the athletic events, the students also presented various items including Yoga, Pyramid, Aerobic exercise etc for the entertainment of the huge gathering of parents, teachers and students. Among the other dignitaries who graced the occasion as Guest of Honour were Rishikesh Dehuary, President School Management Committee, C.K Mitra, VP Mines, Pushpalata Satapathy, DGM CSR, Manoj Jha, AGM-CSR. Specially Krushna Kumar, PET of Jindal Vidyapeetha, Tapas Kumar Mohanty, Sports Co-ordinator JSPl, Sunita Dwibedi and Srikant along with all the Teaching, Non-teaching staff of Jindal Vidyapeetha and the support of team CSR of JSPl coordinated the function to a grand success.