The second day of the ongoing three- day annual sporting event of the Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra- VAJRA’19, witnessed great enthusiasm among the students participating from the various institutes. Being organised at the college campus, the event has participants from BIT Deoghar, BIT Patna, Asansol Engineering College, National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur and various colleges from Ranchi.
The event, which kick started on November 8, has sports tournaments like football, cricket, chess, volleyball, table tennis and badminton.
The penultimate day of the cricket tournament being organised in VAJRA’19 had four matches fixed for the day. Two matches were being simultaneously played at the Oval Ground and the BIT Polytechnic Ground. In the first half of the day NIFFT Ranchi played against AEC at the Oval ground while RCM battled BIT Sindri at the BIT Polytechnic Ground. The match ended in a tie between NIFFT Ranchi and AEC.
In the second half, RCM faced the cricket team of BIT Mesra at the Oval Ground where as at BIT Polytechnic an exciting match was witnessed between BIT Patna and NIT Jamshedpur.
On the second day of the sports fest, a total of 14 football matches were organised at Ground 1 and Ground 2. The first started at 8 am while the last one began at 5:30 pm.
On the second day, a total of 15 volleyball men’s teams battled each other on the court. One match was organised under the women’s category at Ground B between the teams of BIT Mesra and Amity Ranchi.
At least eight table tennis matches were held on Saturday for men while the women players played five matches. In chess, with seven teams participating on the second day only five matches were organised. Around 11 basketball matches were held for men and four matches were organised for the women players.
On the second day of VAJRA’19, at least 12 badminton matches for men were held on November 9. Teams from 16 registered colleges participated in the tournament. In the women’s category, three matches among the six participating college teams were organised.
In the evening of the second day of the annual sports fest, an Electronic Dance Music (EDM) night was organised. Action packed musical performances by charismatic EDM artists mesmerized the audience. DJ Dual Vibes who has performed at colossal music festivals including Sunburn Festival, Dunes Music Festival, Timeout 72 had the crowd going crazy. The second performer for the evening DJ Julia Bliss took over the musical night and had everyone grooving to her tunes.
Meanwhile, about 30 alumni members from the 1965 batch visited the institute campus along with their spouses reviving their past memories. RP Singh and JK Jain shared reminiscences of the fun and entertaining college life.