Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 24: An Executive Committee meeting of the Winter Games Association of J&K was held at TRC here today.
The meeting was chaired by AR Dar, Vice President of the Association, who along with other members chalked out different winter sports programs for the current season.
The Association will hold many domestic activities including District and State Championships under the aegis of J&K State Sports Council at Gulmarg.
The meeting said that Tourism Department and J&K Cable Car Corporation will extend their support to make the events a success.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Indian Olympic Association, New Delhi has allotted the National Junior and Sub-Junior Ski and Snowboarding Championships (Boys and Girls) to WGAJK and will be held in the last week of March at Kongdori.
General Secretary WGAJK, Muhammad Yusuf conveyed his gratitude to Indian Olympic Association for allotting this prestigious Junior Nationals to J&K.
The Association has already selected its teams during last State Championship held in March 2018.
Moreover, the WGAJK is fielding its contingent in the Senior Ski and Snowboarding Championship (Men and Women), to be held in first week of February at Manali (Himachal Pradesh). The association had selected the teams in the last State Championship held in March 2018.
The EC Members later called on the Divisional Sports Officer (Kashmir) for arranging the screening of teams and it was decided to hold Screening on January 28, 2019 at 2 pm at the office in Polo Ground, Srinagar.
All the selected athletes have been informed to undergo screening process on the day.
The Association has advised the players to bring two passport size photographs and date of birth certificates with them.
Vice-President WGAJK AR Dar extended thanks to DSO, JKSSC for cooperation.
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