Hope that team spirit, self discipline, dedication and professional skill displayed in the competition would be helpful while discharging duties said Special DG Yadav at the closing ceremony of inter SAF sports competition at the Motilal Nehru Stadium in the state capital on Sunday. He congratulated all the participants and felicitated the winners.
In the three day sports event from June 27 – 30 the 7th Battalion of Special Armed Forces emerged as overall winner of South Zone Inter battalion competition; on Sunday closing ceremony and prize distribution of the event was organised.
The prize distribution function was organized at Motilal Nehru Stadium and winning players and teams were felicitated by Special DG SAF Vijay Yadav.
On the final day of the event 4x100 meter relay was held and was claimed by 10th Battalion Sagar. Bhopal 23rd Battalion stood second while Jabalpur 6th Battalion SAF came third. At the closing ceremony SAF band presented melodious presentation and all participating players did March Past and Chief Guest Yadav took salute. The teams of different sports teams in the Southern region have been selected for the SAF from this competition. Selected teams would participate in 58th Madhya Pradesh Police state level annual sports competition. The Commandant of 7th Battalion Santosh Singh Gaur gave welcome speech. On the occasion Commandant of 23rd Battalion Shimala Prasad and other officials were present.
In the sports competition, 520 participants of 7th, 23rd and 25th Battalion Bhopal, 8th Battalion Bhopal, 9th Battalion Rewa, 10th Battalion Sagar, 35th Battalion Mandla and 36th Battalion Balaghat participated.