The School Education department of the Chhattisgarh Government, as per the State-level sports calendar released earlier, has started rope skipping, cricket, taekwondo and soft tennis competitions under its school sports competitions 2013-14 in the State capital on Saturday.
According to an official press statement issued here on Saturday, 560 players from State schools would participate in the competitions. The inauguration of the sports meet was held at the local Goss Memorial ground at a simple function. leader of the Opposition in Raipur Municipal Corporation Subhash Tiwari inspected arrangements made by the school education department for the sports competitions. He instructed the officers to make all arrangements for the children with full alertness.
He said that players of the schools are stars of the State sports horizon. Special attention should be given in providing them food, housing and other facilities needed in the sports competitions, he added. Tiwari urged the children to participate in the competitions with discipline and abide by the rules. The children took pledge to participate in the competitions with true sports spirit.
The taekwondo competitions will be held at Government Higher Secondary School Mattpuraina, rope skipping at Kalibadi School, soft tennis at VIP Club and cricket at NH Goyal and Gyan Ganga School ground. According to the sources, various committees have been formed for the successful conduct of the sports competitions.
In the competitions, which will conclude on August 20, girls and boys of the age-groups of 14, 17 and 19 years can participate in the rope skipping event, boys of the age group of 14 years can take part in the cricket, boys and girls in the age group of 14, 17 and 19 years can participate in the taekwondo and boys and girls of the age group of 19 years can participate in the softball tennis event.