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Rs. 5 lakh for promoting sports in Koraput

KORAPUT: Drawing the focus of youth participation towards progress in Koraput district and more particularly in the naxal affected blocks will be on the top of the agenda of the district administration, Balakrishna Sahu, District Collector of Koraput said at a meeting today. He was speaking as the chief guest of the inaugural session of the workshop on physical education being organised by Undivided Koraput District College Physical Education Teachers’ Association in the Tribal Museum of Koraput.

While in the first phase Nandapur, Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks would receive Rs.5 lakh each for promotion of games and sports like football and volleyball, all the revenue villages in the district would be covered in a year’s time, he added. Highlighting the initiatives by the State government for the youth of the district, he said that 2,000 youth from the region will get an opportunity to be posted in the OSAP in the near future.

While narrating the story of an educated youth who had met him in Kotia, the border village of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, he said that the youth in the remote pockets of the district were losing the benefits of various employment opportunities in the district due to lack of information. However special effort would now be taken to see that such young people in the district are not left out in future, he said.

Expressing his concern over the gradual degradation of sports and games in schools Himansu Sekhar Mahapatra, president of the State unit of the association emphasised on the need of making it compulsory for the schools to have a suitable play ground to get recognition from the State. Moreover physical education should also be taught as a subject rather than a pastime in the schools and colleges, he added.

While appreciating the success of Dangar Cup which initiated last year in the district in promoting native games and sports like football and volleyball, K.C.Panigrahy, Director, Tribal Museum of Koraput said that this could further keep the rural youth connected and informed to move ahead towards a collective growth. Physical education teachers from Koraput, Rayagada, Malkangiri and Nabrangpur participated in the workshop.

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