Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SAMBA, Apr 9: The Directo-rate of Physical Education, Central University of Jammu organised Annual Sports Meet in the campus premises, here today.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ashok Aima declared the Meet open by lighting the ceremonial Torch, which was followed by Torch Relay and a series of sports events like 100 mts race, Volleyball and Kabaddi matches, Shot Put, Kho-Kho and indoor games like Chess, Carrom and Table Tennis.
The Directorate had collaborated with District legal Services Authority Samba for making the event more socially relevant by organising participation of specially-abled children.
Secretary DLSA, Swati Gupta coordinated the participation of children.
The sports events culminated with the prize distribution function held in the evening session.
MK Sharma, District & Sessions Judge, Samba was the chief guest; while Ashok Kumar, Director, Sports SMVDSB was the guest of honor and Swati Gupta, Secretary, DLSA, Samba was the special invitee. Prof Devanand Padha presided over the function.
Speaking on the occasion, MK Sharma expressed gratitude to the University for collaborating with DLSA and shared the vision and objective of DLSA which is social transformation by reaching out to stake holders.
Ashok Kumar expressed pleasure to be part of the Sports Meet and assured all possible support from SMVDSB.
In 100 and 200 meter girls’ race, convened by Dr. Archana Kumari, Neha Rani (MCNM) claimed first position, while Priyanka Padha ( NSS) was second and Jasveen Kaur (TTM) was third.
In 100 meters boys race, Mohd Rashid (Physics) bagged first position, Saksham (Zoology) was second and Mohd Wasim (Economics) was third.
In 200 meters, Mohd Rashid (Physics) was first, Ashish Badyal (Physics) was second and Surendra Kumar was third.
Kho-Kho (girls) events were convened by Dr. Neena, while in Kabaddi convened by Dr R. Sudhkar, the School of Business Studies emerged winner, while the School of Basic and Applied Sciences was the runners-up.
In Volleyball, convened by Dr Bhavna Arora, the winning team was School of Business Studies and the runners-up team was School of Basic and Applied Sciences. In Shot Put, convened by Dr Vishal Singh, Saksham Sharma (Deptt. of Zoology), Karan (Deptt. NSS) and Bhanu Sambyal (Deptt. BVOC) bagged first, second and third spot in boys section, while in girls category, the winners were Jasveen Kour (Deptt. TTM), Ritika Sharma (Deptt. TTM) and Poonam Sharma (Deptt. SCM).
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