U-15 School Sports from Wednesday

The U-15 school sports competition, which is to be held for the first time, is starting on Wednesday in Pokhara. Sridhar Sharma, Member-Secretary of Provincial Sports Council Gandaki, said at the press conference held in Pokhara on Tuesday that the preparations for the competition have been completed. With the aim of developing sports from schools, U-15 school sports are going to be held for the first time. All its preparations have been completed. "The badminton event has already started on Tuesday," he said.

Players from all seven provinces will compete. 76-76 players, 8 coaches and 6 managers from each province will participate. In the competition, there will be 6 different games. There will be competition in athletics, basketball, rugby, badminton, table tennis and intelligence. There will be competition in both male and female sports. Sharma said that only 6 games were included in the first version of

and the number of games will be increased in the coming year. Rajkumar Karki, a member of the organizing committee of the competition, said that six sports have been selected because there is a need to promote sports that are played in the Olympics, sports that are also played at school level and sports other than athletics included in the President's Running Shield.

General Secretary of Nepal School Sports Federation Karki expressed the opinion that organizing sports competitions from the school level will strengthen the foundation of sports and produce Olympians in the future. In

athletics, there will be competition in 100, 200, 400 and 800 meters race, shot put, long jump and 4 times 100 meters relay race. In Badminton and Table Tennis, there will be competition in 5-5 events of male singles, doubles, female singles, doubles and mixed doubles. There will be a competition in the team event of students in intelligence.

In athletics, 6-6 male and female players, 4-4 male and female players in badminton and 4-4 male and female players, 4 players in intelligence will participate. 10 male and female players will participate in rugby and basketball.

All five matches will be played at the Pokhara Stadium. The official opening of the tournament will be held on Wednesday. Badminton competition has already started on Tuesday. A budget of 18.2 million has been allocated to conduct the

competition. Member-Secretary Sharma informed that 15 million will be borne by the National Sports Council and the remaining 32 million by the Provincial Sports Council Gandaki.