For the first time ever, the Jharkhand Police is organising a Badminton and Table Tennis tournament in the State. Besides being the first of its kind, the tournament will be unique as all police officials including the Director General of Police Rajiv Kumar will be contesting for the trophy with junior officials of the Indian Police Service.
“This is a unique tournament as all senior police official including DGP will take part in it. Also, for the first time badminton and table tennis tournament is being organised in the State. This will be a tournament in which DGP will also be a participant,” said DIG-Jharkhand Armed Police, Suman Gupta.
The tournament will start on September 16 and will end on September 18. As many as 26 gazetted officers and 123 non-gazetted officials will participate in Badminton whereas eight gazetted and 15 non-gazetted officials will participate in the Table Tennis tournament. The event will be organised at Thakur Vishwanath Sahdeo Indoor Stadium at Hotwar and will showcase singles as well as double matches. Notably, there will be a mixed double badminton game for gazette officers also. The tournament will be inaugurated by Arts, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Geetashree Oraon.
“These are not among State level games recognised by State Government. However, during last year’s event Chief Minister had asked us to organise these events so this is also compliance of his orders,” added Gupta. The event is being promoted as presenting a platform to the talents in the State constabulary and also as a way to de-stress police personnel.