School Education and Tribal Development Minister Kedar Kashyap on Wednesday inaugurated the four-day 15th State-level Inter-School Sports Competition and attended the march-past of the school children.
About 1050 sports persons are participating in the competition. Parliamentary Secretary Ambesh Jangde , School Education Department Secretary Subrat Sahu and International Hockey player Neeta Dumre were among who were present.
The event is being organised by the School Education Department . There are eight events which include Hockey, Football, Softball and rope skipping.
Kashyap said the children are excited about the event and there is sports potential hidden in every child. This competition is crucial to bring out the latent talent among the kids.
He gave a detailed description of the steps being taken to promote sports in Chhattisgarh.
The Minister announced Rs 11,000 each to the laxminarayan Girls Higher Middle School Raipur for cultural programme and the Sri Ram Sharma Government Girls Higher Middle School Dumartarai for its band party.
The students came from Raipur, Surguja, Rajnandgaon, Jashpur, Durg, Bilaspur and Bastar district