The curtain came down on the 68th Senior Inter District Volleyball Championship-2019 held at Gopabandhu Stadium here by the Sports Council of Paradip Port Trust under the auspices of Odisha Volleyball Association on Tuesday.
The East Coast Railway (ECoR) emerged winner in the men category, whereas, the KIIT University, Bhubaneswar became the champion in the women category. The KIIT and ECOR teams have been runners up teams in men and women categories, respectively.
Sivani Priyadarsini from KIIT University was adjudged as best all-rounder, Sushri Sangeeta Jena of Cuttack was best setter and Vala Chetna of ECoR bagged best attacker award. In men section, M Vighneswaran of ECoR was adjudged best all-rounder, Subhranshu Ojha of Bhubaneswar was best setter and Pratyush Kumar Nanda of Odisha Police bagged best attacker award.
Jagatsinghpur Collector Sangram Keshari Mohapatra awarding prizes to the winners hoped that the games would strengthen sportsman spirit among participants.
He also announced about an indoor stadium with all the modern amenities to come up at Jagatsinghpur with an estimated expenditure of Rs 1.84 crore.
Among others, Paradip ADM Dr Kanhu Charan Dhir, Paradip Municipality Chairman Basant Biswal, Executive Officer Dillip Mohanty, PPT Traffic Manager SK Mishra, Odisha Volleyball Association president Subodh Routray, working president Sanjaya Das, general secretary Dr Gaganendu Dash, Gopabandhu Kreeda Sansad (GKS) working president Babul Sikdar, secretary Ranjan Rashmi Beura, and sports advisor Rabi Das were present.
As many as 46 teams (32 men and 14 women) of different districts of Odisha took part in the championship. A record total of 110 matches were played in four days.