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| Srinagar Woman Sports Festival ends | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
SRINAGAR, Nov 12: Inter-block Women Sports Festival of block Srinagar concluded today at Polo Ground. In all 12 teams representing different schools took part in the competitions which were organized by the J&K State Sports Council.
In Volleyball, Star Land Public School emerged Victorious and Sayed Mirakshah the runners. The third place went to Imamia Public School.
In Kabaddi, Green Valley Educational School bagged first, Linton Hall and Imamia Public School finished second and third respectively.
In Kho-Kho, Linton Hall emerged the winners, while Green Valley and Galaxy Public School finished second and third respectively.
In 100m run, Salarish from Green Valley bagged first, Ishrat from Imamia second and Munazah from Galaxy Public School finished third.
In 200m run, Sabina from Mirakshah Public School, Bushra from Green Valley and Shazia from Galaxy Public School bagged second and the third place respectively.
Joint secretary State Sports Council (SSC), Abdul Rouf was the chief guest on the concluding function. He also distributed the prizes among the participants. The woman sports festival was organised by SSC under the supervision of Mohammad Iqbal.
Organizer Woman Sports Festival Srinagar, Mohammad Iqbal, expressed his satisfaction over the huge participation women in different events.
“The festival came to a successful end. Women participated piously in different events. They also got interested in sports,” Iqbal said.
However, some of the schools with talented students did not participate due to the ongoing exam secession.
Expressing his displeasure Iqbal said that the teachers play down sports as mere wastage of time.
“Students were interested to participate in the festival but they were barred by their teachers. Teachers don’t encourage them for sports.”
“It has been the norm of almost all the school to charge games fund from the students when students never play any game,” Iqbal added. |
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