Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Mithilesh Kumar Thakur on Sunday, inaugurated the Chief Minister's invitational football tournament at Girls High school field Garhwa. The tournament is organized by the Department of Tourism, Art Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs for promotion of sports among the youths. Deputy Commissioner Rajesh Kumar Pathak, Deputy Development Commissioner Satyendra Narayan Upadhyay and Sub-Divisional Officer Sadar Raj Maheshwaram were also present on the occasion. The tournament will continue till December 15. On the occasion, the Minister said the government is organizing the tournament to promote sports- talents and giving a better platform to the players in rural areas.
He said that Chief Minister also makes constant efforts in taking forward the game and the players. Continuous work is being done on how to take all sports including football to the highest level in Jharkhand.
Even after the formation of Jharkhand, the sports which could not be organized in this state, after Covid, the enthusiasm of the players is being increased by organizing them. He told that Chief Minister has taken many steps to encourage the players.
The biggest step in that which had never happened till date in the history of Jharkhand, the promising players of our state, whether they have represented in any field of sports at the state level and national level, all those players were directly appointed in government jobs. The players who were eligible were given government jobs according to that qualification, definitely this is a big achievement of the Jharkhand government. Minister met the participants one by one and encouraged them.
The first match of this competition was played between the team of Garhwa and Meral, in which Meral defeated Garhwa team by 2-1, while the second match was played between Bhavnathpur and Majhian in which Majhian team defeated Bhavnathpur by 2-0.