Chhattisgarh will be hosting the two-day 26th West Zone Junior Athletics Meet 2014 for the first time on October 7 and 8 at Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University ground in the city. The championship will be inaugurated at 7 am on Tuesday.
Addtional Director General of Police (ADG) (Intelligence) Mukesh Gupta will inaugurate the championship. Similarly, Chhattisgarh Olympic Association General Secretary Baldeo Singh Bhatia will be the chief guest during the concluding ceremony on Wednesday.
The meet will be held under the supervision of Chhattisgarh Athletics Association informed Association Secretary Radhakrishnan Pillai jointly with Patron Gurucharan Singh Hora and Sports Officer C S Baghel at a news conference at Raipur Press Club on Monday.
As many as 145 athletics event will be held during the two-day meet with 674 participants coming from six states such as Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Goa, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh are participating.
The meet will be held in four age groups such as boys and girls U-14, U-16, U-18 and U-20. The best performers of this championship will be selected for the Inter-Zonal Junior Championship, they said.