Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 9: The opening ceremony of NCC National Games-2014 was conducted at Director General NCC Camp, Delhi Cantt, on Wednesday.
Lt Gen Aniruddha Chakravarty, Director General, NCC, formally opened the games amidst pageantry and thunderous applause.
The aim of the NCC Games is to provide the talented sportspersons amongst the Cadets a feel of a major sporting event and prepare them with requisite match temperament and further their sporting careers. An added aim is also to showcase and promote low cost indigenous games such as Kabbadi and Kho-Kho.
The delegation of NCC cadets from Jammu and Kashmir comprising of 72 boys and 42 girls is participating in the Games in different disciplines.
The NCC National Games being conducted over 11 days from October 8 to 18, 2014 will see competitions in eight sports disciplines i.e, Football, Hockey, Athletics, Table Tennis, Kabbadi, Kho-Kho, Badminton and Shooting.
Football will be played at various venues in Delhi Cantt with finals slated on Oct 16, 2014. Hockey will be conducted in Major Dhyan Chand Stadium with semi-final and finals on Oct 16 and 17, 2014. Table Tennis and Badminton are being conducted in Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium and Athletics in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium with finals on Oct 17, 2014.
All events are being conducted at Delhi except Shooting, which is being conducted at Asansol, West Bengal.
Nearly 2000 cadets from 17 State Directorates representing all states and Union Territories in the country are participating in the National Games.
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