The four-day District level rural boys and girls sports competition under the Swami Vivekanand Panchayat Youth Sports and district level rural women sports competition under the National Sports Competition organised by the Youth Welfare department and Prantiya Rakshak Dal was inaugrurated by chief development officer Navneet Pandey at Kandoliya ground in Pauri on Sunday.
About 640 participants are taking part in different sports events in both the competitions.Adressing to participants in the inaugural function Pandey stressed that they should participate in the competition with the spirit of sportsmanship and must show their calibre and talent without thinking of the result.
He hoped that the selected participants will make the district proud in the State level competition. District Youth Welfare Officer KKS Rawat said that both the sports competitions include athletics, volleyball, kho-kho, kabaddi, badminton and table tennis. In the district level rural boys and girls competition the players are aged up to 16 years while the age group of participants in the district level women competition is from 18 to 25 years.
The winning participants will represent Pauri district in the state level competitions. Rawat said that Judo competition will be held at Srinagar from November 19 while Taekwondo and boxing competitions will be held in Kotdwar though the dates have been not finalised yet.