Kolkata: School Regatta begins at Lake Club, DAV Public School from Chandigarh shines
DAV Pubic School represented by Akash Deep Singh, Shahwinder Singh, Karamchand and Harpreet Singh shown their robustness in handling the oars and rowed the 500 mts length maintain huge lead all the way.
Incidentally, the Regatta, being organized by the Lake Club Ltd, is the biggest ever rowing championship in India in school level.
In the second hit of the day for Sr Girls in Fours Khalsa English High School got row over the Ballygunge Siksha Sadan School as the latter did not turn up.
Over 300 students, both boys and girls from 32 schools in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh are taking part in the 7-day competition.
Besides the winning schools of the last edition like La Martiniere for Girls, South Point High School, Modern High Schools for Girls, Khalsa English High School, Future Hope, Asoke Hall, St Lawrence, St Helen in the city, jatragachi High School at Rajarhat , Tirthapati Institution and Mitra High School are among the institutions that wouid take part in the grueling championship.
The regatta is open for boys and girls in senior( Class XI and XII ) and junior category ( up to class X) .
Besides rowing on water, indoor rowing, swimming and quiz competition will be concurrently held at the same venue to popularize the equipment aided sport. Lake Club is the only club in the country to initiate such moves.
Earlier West Bengal Urban development Minister Firhad Hakim declared the meet
Open and urged the concerned people to bring a professional approach in rowing like that of cricket and soccer. He hoped that future champions in the country would emerge from these participants. He also assured necessary governmental support for this water sport in the state.
Earlier, Lake Club president Mukund kulkarni welcomed all the participants and urged them to enjoy the competition.
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