City’s Badminton player Priyanka Pant will participate in the national sub-junior camp to be held at Bangalore. The camp will be held at Padukone-Dravid Sports Centre for Excellence from June 1.
The Badminton player Priyanka Pant, under the De-boarding scheme, will learn the tricks of badminton game in the national sub-junior training camp organized at the Padukone-Dravid Sports Center for Excellence in Bangalore from June 1 to 21.
For training camp, three players have been selected from Madhya Pradesh, in addition to Priyanka Pant from Bhopal, Kumari Gauri Chitte and Rudra Tiwari, two players from Indore.
Badminton player Priyanka Pant, under the De-boarding scheme run by the sports department, is training for Badminton trainer Ms. Rashmi Malviya for the past three years.
Priyanka Pant, the winner of singles and doubles in the Under-13 and Under-15 category for two consecutive years in 2016-17 and 2017 in state level events, met the Director of Sports Youth Welfare Department S.l. Thoussen. Thoussen congratulated her on selection at the National Camp and gave good wishes while encouraging her to get a complete and serious training.
Meanwhile, the children who participated in the ongoing summer camp at TT Nagar Stadium witnessed Kerala’s martial art Kalaripayattu on Thursday. The evnt was held under ‘Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat’.
A team of ten-member from Kerala, led by Shrijayan Gurukkal, performed excellent during the Summer Camp of Kerala's martial arts Kalarippayattu. Univatens and Aramal, two young children in the team, won the hearts of the audience by performing the great art of warcraft.
During the performance of Kerala's martial arts Kalaripayattu, Principal Secretary Aniruddha Mukherjee, Director Sports and Youth Welfare S.l. Thoussen, joint director of sports Vinod Pradhan and B.S. Yadav, along with other officials, players and their guardians were present.
It is to be noted that Kalaripayattu is being performed from May 24 to 27 in Bhopal under Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat with coordinated cooperation of the Kerala Sports Council, Higher Education and Sports Department, Madhya Pradesh.