Collector, OP Choudhary on Tuesday held a meeting to review arrangements being made for the State-level school sports competition to be held here from August 24 to 27.
The competition including Hockey, Handball, Dodgeball, Cycling and Sportsdisk in both boy and girl category will be organised by the School Education Department. As many as 511 boys and 399 girls along with 105 coaches and managers from Ambikapur, Jashpur, Durg, Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur,Bastar and Raipur zone will participate. The Collector issued directives for making arrangements including accommodation, drinking and medical facility for the participants. He asked the officials concerned to make special security arrangements for the girls.The Chief Executive Officer of the Zila Panchayat, Taran Prakash Sinha has been appointed nodal officer for the competition.
A mobile team of the doctors will be moving at all the accommodation points and playgrounds during the competition. During night hours, the team will also carry medicines in enough quantity. The Collector also learnt about transportation arrangements made for the players and issued appropriate directives to the district transport officers in this regard.
likewise, he asked the District Education Officer (DEO) to make adequate arrangements for prize distribution, opening and closing ceremony of the competition etc. The Collector asked the officials concerned to complete the all the preparations before August 22.DEO, RN Hiradhar informed the gathering that a Hockey competition for boy in 15 and 17 years of age group and for girls in 17 years of age group will be held.A handball competition for boy and girls’ 14 years of age group will be held.
Similarly, the competition of Dodgeball , Cycling and Sportsdisk will be held in both boy and girls’ 19 years of age group. Hiradhar added of appointing an Officer In-charge to fulfill the responsibilities of making proper arrangements of accommodation, playground, control room, cleanliness, drinking water, medical etc. Additional Collector, SK Pawar, Chief Medical and Health Officer, Dr Rl Ghrutlahare, Assistant Commissioner (Tribal Development), HR Chouhan and representatives from different sport associations attended the meeting.