Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 19: Jammu and Kashmir Rifle Association (JKRA) shall organise J&K State Shooting Championship in the last week of March involving all the top and budding shooters.
This was decided in the special executive committee meeting which was chaired by JKRA president Kuldeep Singh attended besides others by
Amjad Parvez Mirza (general secretary), S S Sodhi (treasurer), V S Pathania (senior member), Sharat Chander Singh (vice president), Ashok Kumar (joint secretary), Col. Sukhbir Singh, Samar Dev Singh Charak and Rajesh Virdhy (chief coach).
The meeting was appraised by the general secretary and vice president about the ever growing participation of J&K shooters at the National level competition held during the sports season.
The meeting was informed that 55 shooters participated in All India G V Mavlankar Shooting Championship 2019 and 38th North Zone Shooting Championship 2019 while 50 other shooters took part in the 63rd National Shooting Championship held at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
“As many as 16 shooters were selected for Indian Squad 2020 trials, while Vivaan Sharma secured Silver medal in the CBSE National Shooting Championship at Haryana,” informed Sharat Chander.
In addition, Anu Sharma has been appointed as technical official for world Championships to be held in New Delhi the meeting told.