PLAYERS WILL BE SELECTED FOR THE UPCOMING STATE MEET THE Nagpur District Athletics Association (NDAA) will be organising the District Athletics Championship for boys and girls under the age groups of 14, 16, 18 and 20 years from August 4-6 at the synthetic track of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University,Nagpur, informs Dr Sharad Suryawanshi, Secretary, NDAA through a press release. Dream Planner and Bharatiya Vyayam Prasarak Mandal, Nagpur will be collaborating for hosting the competition. From this competition, the district team will be selected for the State Junior Group Athletics Championship to be held at Dervan (Ratnagiri) from August 27 to 30. Entries should be sent by the concerned schools, colleges, mandals and clubs to [email protected]. Players who have not registered with NDAA, should pay a registration fee of Rs 60 and an entry fee of Rs 250 per event. The last date for confirming entry is August 2.

 

Bib numbers will be distributed on August 3 from 3.00 to 5.00 pm at the university ground. Any number of players from one school, college or club can participate in an event. It is mandatory to submit NDAA identity card or a birth certificate issued by the Gram Panchayat, Municipality, Municipal Corporation, or State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education along with a copy of Aadhaar card. A committee has been formed under the chairmanship of national coach Jitendra Ghordadekar to select the athletes for the state championship. Vaishali Phating, GajananThakre, Umakant Sangonde, DrBrijmohan Rawat, ShamsherKhan and RamchandraWani arethe members of the committee. Organising Committee hasbeen formed under the chairmanship of ShekharSuryawanshi, Vice-President, NDAA. Nagesh Sahare, PravinTong, Dr Vibekanand Singh, DrShriram Aglave, Seema Kashyapand Ritika Kinhekar are the committee members. Ramchandra Wani is theConvenor; Archana Kottewar andGanesh Wani are the Co-ordinators while Dr SharadSuryawanshi is the organisingsecretary. Various track and field eventswill be held during the three-daycompetitions. There will be 23 events forUnder-20 men and womenincluding decathlon for men andheptathlon for women. There will be 14 events for U18 boys and girls; ten for U-16boys and girls and six events forthe U-14 athletes.