Cricket Tournament to encourage budding cricketers of Garhwal commenced on National Sports Day

On the ocassion of National Sports Day today, the sports lovers and youngsters including men n women in the distant rural areas of Tehri Gargwal, Uttarakhand paid their heartfelt tributes to the major pillar of Indian hockey and three gold medallist winner in Indian Olympics major Dhyan Chand in the years 1928, 1932 and 1936.

According to the former Uttarakhand Congress chief n minister Kishore Upadhyay with the slogans and passion of ” khelega gaon, jeetega gaon, khelega yuva, jeetega yuva”, ( village will play, village will win, youth will play and youth will win) a cricket tournament is being organised in the rural areas of Garhwal Uttarakhand at Villages, area Panchayats and district panchayats in order to inculcate in the young villagers a spirit of true sportmen to further enable them to participate in state, national and international level competitions bringing laurels for Uttarakhand n the country.

According to Upadhyay under this initiative to promote the budding sportsmen at the decentralised levels, every village Society eas handed over a cricket kit. The winners of the final matches of the cricket tournaments would be given the first prize of Rs. 51,000 followed by other monetory awards for second and third number aspiring cricket competitors.

The budding cricketers will also be provided with better cricket uniform and awards to promote them even for the initial teams of the tournaments said Kishore Upadhyay. While women and girls are being rendered best training in various sports the best thirty sportsmen would also be rendered training in best academy in the near future. Castigating the successive governments of Uttarakhand for not being honest to develop Uttarakhand Kishore Upadhyay said that Uttarakhand is still lacking far behind in terms of its overall development due the negligence of the present n past regimes.

He demanded job for at least one member of every family in Uttarakhand, followed by reservation for state employees in central government jobs, free electricity, water and domestic gas including declaration of Uttarakhandies under OBC. He also demanded minimum Rs five lakhs compensation and a job to the next of the king dying due to wilf life attacks particularly man eater killings that are rampant in Uttarakhand these days.