Haryana beat BPCL in kabaddi

Tribune news service

Haryana beat BPCL 45-25 while Services beat Mahindra and Mahindra 40-30 in the first Pt Deen Dayal Upadhaya All India National Style Kabaddi Championship at the Rai Sports School, Sonepat, on Thursday. 

Railways beat Uttarakhand 39-27 and Air India beat Uttar Pradesh 33-24 in the other matches of the day. 

With a view to boost India’s prospects in future Olympics, the Sports Ministry has formulated a multi-pronged strategy which includes a portal for promising sportspersons, top level committee to select promising players and a task force to prepare a comprehensive action plan. This was stated by sports minister Vijay Goel during the opening ceremony. 

While appreciating the contribution of Haryana government and its sports minister Anil Vij in promotion of sports, Goel said that sports are being promoted in a big way in the state. He said that the central government would supplement the efforts of the state to make it a hub of sports.