The fifty fifth Sports Meet of the Kezoma Village Students’ Union in Kohima was held on December 28.

Zhopovi Zecho, the District Sports Officer (DSO) for Kohima and Tseminyu district, Department of Youth Resources and Sports, Government of Nagaland, highlighted the federal government’s robust give attention to sports activities growth. He emphasised that the state authorities is enhancing sporting infrastructure and offering quite a few alternatives for athletes, together with coaching, teaching, and profession help.

Zecho highlighted the assorted initiatives undertaken by the federal government to help sports activities fans and people excelling in numerous sporting disciplines. Additionally, he emphasised the potential for constructing a profitable profession by way of sports activities for many who are devoted to the self-discipline. The speaker additionally up to date on the in depth vary of employment alternatives out there in each the federal government and personal sectors, noting that there’s a 3 p.c job reservation within the authorities sector for people excelling in sports activities. Additionally, he emphasised the event of sporting infrastructure and the institution of assorted sports activities academies throughout all districts of the state underneath the Khelo India mission to coach Naga youths in numerous video games and sports activities.

Encouraging college students, significantly these from Kezoma Village, to grab the alternatives offered by the federal government, the sports activities officer urged them to reap the benefits of these initiatives. Furthermore, he introduced that the Department of Youth Resources and Sports will conduct choice trials for admission into the state sports activities hostel for the 2024 periods, ideally for people underneath 14 years of age. The trials will happen on the Indira Gandhi Stadium and can embrace disciplines comparable to sepaktakraw for ladies, athletics for ladies, and soccer for boys, scheduled from January 18-20.

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In this regard, Zecho invited people to come back to the placement on the desired day and be a part of within the actions or search extra info from the district sports activities workplace in Kohima.

Previously, Rokovito Kisotso, Secretary of Games and Sports, presided over this system, and Kevipodi Tase, Assistant Secretary of Games and Sports, oversaw the oath-taking ceremony.

Throughout the day-long occasion, varied video games and sports activities have been performed, together with males’s soccer, ladies’s penalty shootout, volleyball for each women and men, open class standing broad bounce, tug of warfare, and different video games.