A four-day State-level school sports competition will be organised at the State capital from August 17. Taekwondo, rope-skipping, cricket, soft tennis and basketball competitions will be organized during the event in which more than one thousand players will participate at seven sports zones.
According to an official press statement issued here on Tuesday, the taekwondo competition will be held at Government higher secondary school Mattpuraina, rope skipping at Kalibadi School, soft tennis at Mayaram Surjan higher secondary school, basketball at Balaji Vidyamandir and Cricket at NH Goyal/Kota Stadium.
The responsibility of the cleaning of sports grounds and drinking water arrangement has been given to the municipal corporation, arrangement for the housing and emergency treatment of the players to chief medical officer, medical examination of the players to civil surgeon, arrangement of gas cylinders to food department and security arrangement to the police.
A control room for the sports competition has been set up at Prof JN Pandey Higher Secondary School. Arrangement for five buses has been made for ferrying the sports persons. Boys from Raipur zone will be housed at Prof JN Pandey Higher Secondary School, whereas, girls at laxminarayan Girls Higher Secondary School. Similarly, boys from Durg zone will be housed at Holy Cross School Shailendra Nagar and girls at Holy Cross Girls School Peshanbada; boys from Rajnandgaon zone at Khalsa Public School and girls at Mata Sundari Public School.
Similarly, boys from Bilaspur zone will stay at Salem English Higher Secondary School and girls at Salem Hindi Higher Secondary School; boys and girls from Surguja zone at Mayaram Surjan Higher Secondary School Choubey Colony; boys from Jashpur zone at Government Hindu Higher Secondary School and girls at Government JR Dani Girls Higher Secondary School; boys from Bastar zone at Prof JN Pandey Higher Secondary School and girls at Government JR Dani Girls Higher Secondary School.