Excelsior Sports Correspondent
LEH, Oct 27: The Inter-school tournament for Higher Secondary Schools of the district for girls concluded at Open Stadium Spituk today, in the presence of chief guest Deputy Chairman, LAHDC Leh, Tsering Ancghuk and guest of honour Deputy Commissioner, Leh Shrikant Suse.
The tournament was organised by the Department of Youth Services and Sports Leh. In the girls’ tournament, 13 schools from different parts of the district participated in various games viz Football, Handball and Track and Field events like 100m, 400m, 800m, and 4x100m relay race among others.
Addressing the gathering, Dy Chairman appreciated the department headed by DYSSO, Tsering Tashi for successfully conducting the tournament. He also stressed the need of promoting sports and physical activities in the schools and nurturing talents from a young age and instructed the Principals/Headmasters to organize sports day or sports meet in schools and also at blocks/ zonal levels.
He added that the Council would deliberate on providing training to the PET/PEMs and necessary support for the promotion of sports.
During the closing ceremony, the final match of Football was played between Govt Hr Sec School Diskit and Nyoma, in which GHSS Nyoma won by three goals in a penalty shoot-out. Similarly, the finals of the 100m, 800m, and relay races were also held.
The event concluded with the distribution of prizes and certificates to the winners of the different sporting activities.
Chief Education Officer SD Namgyal; Principals/ Headmasters and PET/PEMs of different GHHS of the district; officers and officials of DYSS were present on the occasion.
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