Higher Education Minister Prem Prakash Pandey inaugurated the 14th State-level School Sports Competition at Sector-2 Bhilai School ground on Sunday.The players from seven districts are participating in the competition which will have six different types of games.
Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Pandey said that sports competition provide an opportunity to the players to display their sporting talent and skills. They get inspired and motivated to move ahead from the results of the competitions. However, they should neither get over excited nor frustrated by the results and play with a sporting spirit.
He advised the players to move ahead with a positive approach.Durg MP Tamradhwaj Sahu said that sports help to develop a healthy body and mind.
He asked the participants to maintain the sporting spirit and discipline. Sahu suggested promoting traditional sports apart from holding national-level sports. MlAs Arun Vora and labhchand Bafna also addressed the students on the occasion.
Collector R Sangheeta gave an outline of the competition and said that students from Bastar, Bilaspur, Jashpur, Raipur, Rajnandgaon and Surguja zone are participating in the competition. The competitions will be held include wrestling, fencing, boxing, ball badminton, karate and softball.
The boxing competition will be held at Ispat Club in Sector-2, wrestling competition at Mahatma Gandhi Vidyalaya, Durg, fencing competition at Bhilai School Sector-2, ball badminton at Ball Badminton ground in Sector-4, karate competition at Shankara Vidyalaya in Sector -10 and softball competition at Bhilai School Sector-2. The 14th State-level school sports competition will end on September 4.
Zila Panchayat Chairperson Sandhya Bhardwaj, CEO of Zila Panchayat JP Pathak and sports officers of all zones and district education officer besides a number of students were present on the occasion.