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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Mangan boys and Namchi girls emerge champs at Namchi Interschool TT tourney OPEN CATEGORY TO BEGIN SUNDAY


NAMCHI, 25 Oct: Mangan Senior Secondary School has emerged the champion of the 2nd Namchi Inter School Table Tennis Championship 2013 in the boys’ category defeating CCCT, Chisopani, in the final match of the team event today. Similarly, Namchi Girls’ Senior Secondary School defeated Ben Secondary School to become the champions of the girls’ team event.
VCGL Rabongla and Namchi Senior Secondary School secured the third place in the boys’ category while in the girls’ category Sakyong Secondary School and Temi Senior Secondary School shared the third place.
The finals of the Inter School events of the ongoing 2nd Namchi Inter School and Open Table Tennis Championship 2013 was held today here at indoor stadium, Namchi which had MLA Zoom Salghari, Madan Cintury as the chief guest while Zilla Adhakshya South, CL Gurung was the guest of honour.
While addressing the occasion, chief guest Mr. Cintury said that the state government under the dynamic leadership of Chief Minister Pawan Chamling has always promoted sports in the state. Facilitating sportspersons with better infrastructure, the present SDF government has always encouraged them. Appreciating the efforts of Namchi Table Tennis Association in organizing the Inter School Table Tennis Championship, he further said that this has provided a platform to the upcoming TT talents and inched closer towards turning the dream of the Chief Minister into reality. Those playing today at Namchi can make the entire country and state proud one day, he added.
The guest of honour, CL Gurung also appreciated the efforts of NTTA to encourage rural talents.
Later, the chief guest and the guest of honour handed over the prizes to the winners of the team events of both the girls and boys category. Later NTTA president and also SDM Namchi, Karma R Bonpo presented the NTTA souvenir to the chief guest and guest of honour.
The open events will start from Saturday while the final of the events will be played on Sunday. The open events will include Veteran's Mens singles and doubles, Veteran's mixed doubles, Open Men and Womens singles, Junior boys and girls singles, Sub Junior boys and girls singles. Participants are already reaching Namchi from different corners of the state as well as from outside the state.
MLA Namchi Singithang, Binod Rai will be the chief guest of the opening ceremony of the open events while Upadhakshya South, Devi Maya Baraily will be the guest of honour.

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