A total of 10 shuttlers from Garhwal region will be among those representing the State in the sub junior, junior and senior categories in the National Badminton Tournament.
They were selected to represent the State at the Uttarakhand State level tournament held in the last week of August at Ramnagar in Nainital district. The national badminton tournament for primary and secondary school students is slated to be held in the first week of October in Andhra Pradesh. Felicitating those selected from Garhwal to represent the State, the additional director, Education (Garhwal) Ram Krishna Uniyal hoped that the shuttlers from Garhwal will win laurels for the State in the national tourney.
Uniyal instructed all chief education officers to provide facilitate coaching for the selected badminton players to prepare them for the national tournament. Regional sports coordinator of Garhwal region Kesar Singh Aswal told The Pioneer that out of 10 players selected from Garhwal region, four are from Pauri district and three each from Dehradun and Chamoli districts.
The shuttlers from Garhwal selected to represent the State include Anit Alwart of SGNPV Inter College Dehradun, Shivani Kunwar of GIC Kanswa (Chamoli) in sub junior category, Sachin Joshi and Bharat Tewari of DAV inter college, Pauri, lakshman Singh of GIC Gajiyawala (Dehradun), Himanshi of GIC Kanswa (Chamoli) and Sanchita Sanni of GIC Mundneshwar (Pauri) in junior category, Krishna of GIC Mahalghati (Chamoli), Kajal Panwar of Mulchand Nari inter college Dehradun and Pawan Bisht of DAV inter college Pauri in the senior category.