The opening ceremony of 38th All Valley Cricket Tournament by BTPS Project under the aegis of Central Sports Council, Damodar Valley Corporation held here on Tuesday at Swami Vivekananda Kridangan, Bokaro Thermal.
Chief guest Sushant Sannigrahi, Chief Engineer and Project Head, BTPS announced the inauguration of the tournament by hoisting the CSC flag.
Host team BTPS captain Vishal Yadav administered the oath to all the captains. The chief guest met all the players and encouraged them and batted on the pitch.
Addressing the opening ceremony, CE & PH Sannigrahi congratulated all the team players and wished them all the success of the tournament.
In his address, he said that as soon as he steps on the playground, a person becomes sure of all the worries. He hoped that all the players of the corporation would display interesting games inspired by the team spirit and would bring laurels to the Damodar Valley Corporation by performing better in the world of sports in future.
Additional Director (HR) Neeraj Sinha delivered the welcome address. Girls of DVC+2 High School presented exciting tribal dance under the direction of teachers Mrs. Vibha Sinha and Mrs. Aarti Rani. Hindi officer Ismail Mian, while conducting the programme, wrote his poetry - 'Cricket players are proud of many people, today they are proud of DVC. Thank you Maidan-e-BTPS, I am proud to host. 'A crazy destination passes through the streets, like this. Like Shama's abhay permit, keeps burning on the light.' etc.
Two minutes silence was observed for the peace of the departed soul of Cricket player late Awadhesh Kumar, BTPS and late.Narayan Sharma, Maithon.
This tournament will run till 23.12.2021 in which 08 teams of Damodar Valley Corporation - MTPS, DSTPS and DTPS in Group A, KTPS, RTPS and Group B will have a cricket competition between DVC Maithon, CTPS, DVC Kolkata and BTPS team. CAB Registered Bhairav Rai and Ranjit K. Parida will officiate.
On the first day an exhibition match was played involving players from all the teams in which team A was captained by Stephen G Rajan, RTPS and team B was captained by Sanjay Sinha, DVC Maithon.
Principal Chief Medical Officer Dr. S. Dasgupta, Senior Manager (CSR) A.K. Tiwari, Manager (Finance) Abhijit Garai, SDE Asif Iqbal, Joint Director Aishwarya Chandra, Deputy Director (Vigilance) Mohd.
Tariq Saeed, Asst. Director-cum-Organizing Committee Secretary S.A. Ashraf, Principal G.K. Mishra, Sadan Singh, R.P. Rajak, R.K. Rajak, Vinay Kumar, D.N. Sharma, Rajesh K. Singh, Shashi Bhushan Prasad, P.C. Mehta, Shahid Ikram etc. A large number of officers and employees participated.