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More than 20,000 students volition instrumentality portion successful the Kerala School Sports and Games that volition beryllium held connected the lines of the Olympics successful the State superior from Tuesday.
Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty, astatine a property league present connected Saturday, said competitions would beryllium held successful 41 events crossed 12 stadiums. Director of General Education (DGE) N.S.K. Umesh would sojourn the stadiums to reappraisal the arrangements.
The Chief Minister’s trophy procession that began from Kasaragod connected October 16 would scope the borders of Thiruvananthapuram territory connected Sunday. The Minister and the DGE, would person the trophy astatine Government Higher Secondary School, Thattathumala. The trophy procession would beryllium be fixed a reception astatine large centres successful the territory connected Monday and Tuesday.
On Tuesday, aft the reception astatine Government Model Girls Higher Secondary School, Pattom, astatine 10 a.m., the procession would scope the venue of the games’ inaugural – University Stadium.
The torchlight procession would statesman from Ernakulam connected Sunday. After receptions successful schools successful Alappuzha and Kollam districts, it would scope Thiruvananthapuram connected Monday. It would beryllium fixed a reception successful assorted metropolis schools connected Tuesday. It would them merge with the trophy procession astatine Government Model Girls Higher Secondary School, Pattom.
This time, the wide title trophy for the champion schoolhouse volition beryllium fixed successful 2 categories – wide schoolhouse and sports school. However, to determine the territory with the maximum points, nary favoritism volition beryllium made betwixt wide and sports schools. The full points won by schools successful some categories volition beryllium considered.
The Minister said the prize wealth successful athletics for champion wide schoolhouse had been hiked. The archetypal prize had been accrued from ₹2.25 lakh to ₹2.5 lakh, 2nd from ₹1.65 lakh to ₹1.75 lakh, and 3rd prize from ₹1.1 lakh to ₹1.25 lakh.
Sports schools successful the athletics class would get ₹1lakh, ₹75,000, and ₹50,000, respectively.
As galore arsenic 1,944 students would instrumentality portion successful the schoolhouse games arsenic portion of inclusive sports.
Thirty-five students, including 12 girls, from 7 schools successful the Gulf portion that travel the State syllabus volition besides instrumentality portion successful the games.
