Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 2: Jammu Kashmir Police (JKP) is organizing 4 day Inter Zone Sports Meet from April 9 onwards.
This was stated by K Rajendra Kumar, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Armed/ Law and Order, during a meeting, chaired by senior police officers. The meeting was called to finalize the arrangements for the conduct of the Inter Zone Sports Meet.
Addressing the meeting, K Rajendra Kumar, disclosed that the event will have 14 disciplines in which a large number of sports personnel and athletes will participate and it will be played at different venues including Police Sports Stadium, Gulshan Ground, District Police Lines, Jammu University, CTC Sunjawan and Officers Mess.
He said that men and women players will participate in Basketball, Volleyball, Handball, Boxing, Wrestling, Weight Lifting, Shooting, Kabaddi, Archery, Kho-Kho, Tug-of War, Badminton, Billiards, Table Tennis and Lawn Tennis events during the meet.
“The players will represent different zones of the organization viz Armed, Auxiliary, Civil Defence, SDRF, CID, Telecom, Crime, Traffic, Security, SSG, Railways and Training Zones, IGP said, adding, that Nodal Officers for all the zones have been designated and committees constituted to make the event a success”.
IGP further stated that the games will be conducted as per the rules laid down by All India Police Sports Council Board and all the events during the sports meet will be played on the knock-out basis.
“All necessary arrangements for boarding and lodging of the players have been finalized”, IGP added.
Among others present were IGPs, Dilbagh Singh, Zahoor Hussain Chisti, HK Lohia and Gulzar Ahmed Salathia, DIGs, Dr KK Saini, Yoginder Koul, Abdul Qayoom Manhas, P Namgyal, T Punchok, Avtar Singh Bali, JP Singh and Johny Williams, Medial Superintendent, Police Hospital, Basant Kumar Sharma and Commandants of Jammu based IR/ JKAP battalions.