The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else, sports meets aim at imparting lesions on sportsman spirit and camaraderie to children, said chief guest Raj Kumar Mehta SDPO, Bermo. Upholding of this aspect of sporting event, St Paul Modern School, Bokaro thermal organized a day long its 37th annual athletic meet 2016-17 at school ground on Tuesday.
The inauguration commenced at 10;30 am with the march past led all four respective house captains and their team members. The boy and girl students marched proudly with military precision and perfect synchronization in their house colours to the tune of the school band . The principal, Suresh Gaikward then welcomed the gathering and introduced the chief guest SDPO, Raj Kumar Mehta.The crowd witnessed the arrival of the torch carried by the school athletes Sanjay Kumar Mahto and Sonali Bhattacharya and the sports persons led the oath taking ceremony, all the students pledging to inculcate the spirit of sportsmanship within them .Chief Guest Raj Kumar Mehta declared the annual athletic meet 2016-17.He later addressed the gathering and stressed on team-spirit along with the need of being the good citizens of India and representing our country with pride and dignity. The formal inaugural function came to an end with S.Gaikwad giving the vote of thanks.
The athletes competed with each other in various events such as 100m ,200m and 400m races .The students enthusiastically also took part in short-put .The students cried themselves hoarse in support of their respective houses .
As information provided by school authority, Amman Gaur in boys’ category with 16 points and Pallavi Singh in girls category with 33 points emerged fasted athletes on the day of annual athletic meet at school sports ground in Bokaro Thermal on Tuesday while Sastri house won the championship with 101pionts and runner trophy goes in favour of Tagore house with 83 points .