Raipur

Cricket tourney held to keep youths away from alcoholism

Staff Reporter

In order to keep youths away from alcoholism and associate them with sports, a Super At Night Cricket Tournament is being  organised here for the last four years. The event organised at Jhakkadpur near Paththalgaon was inaugurated by chief guest and senior leader Satyanarayan Sharma while Hargovind Agrawal was present as special guest.

 The programme was presided over by  the President of the Press Club  Vedprakash Mishra. The  Speaker pad Panchayat Ajay Rajput was also present in the programme.

On this occasion, chief guest Satyanarayan Sharma propounded the cricket tournament to be good exercise for youths to maintain good health. He said that youths must be associated with sports for their bright future. Both the formation  of Cricket Club in a rural area like Jhakkadpur and organising tournament are laudable. 

 lauding the big contribution of Ajay Rajput in organizing the event, he said that Rajput has emerged as a source of great inspiration for the youths in this rural area.

 On this occasion youths of Paththalgaon Bablu Tiwari,  Pradip Nag, Anuk Singh, laljit, Toppo , Vijay  and others were present. Hargovind Agrawal appreciated the efforts made for arranging the cricket tournament  to  keep aloof the youths from alcoholism. He said that along with their studies, youths should take interest in sports activities also so that they remain healthy and active.

 After introducing the players with the guests, Karangabahala team  won the toss and  opted to bat.  It invited the  Moon Star  team of Paththalgaon  to come forward for fielding. In the stipulated overs  Karangabahar  scored 82 runs with the loss of 6 wickets. Moon Star Paththalgaon played well but  lost the  match.

 At the outset the guests were accorded a grand welcome and honoured. On this occasion  Meha and Kashis performed  excellent group dance and Duleshwari and Bhagwati sang melodious welcome song.