NIT-Hamirpur shines at national championship

Hamirpur, December 27

The National Institute of Technology (NIT) excelled at the Inter-NIT Faculty and Staff badminton and table tennis championship, which concluded at the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology in Bhopal. The team members were accorded a rousing welcome on their arrival here today.

As many as 16 NITs from across the country participated in the championship. In the ‘above 50 category’ the NIT-Hamirpur bagged gold in team event, Dr Manoranjan Rai Bharti bagged gold in singles event and Dr Surender Kumar Soni bagged a bronze medal. Dr Rajesh Kumar Sharma won a bronze medal in the ‘below 50 category’. The table tennis team also reached quarterfinals for the first time ever in the Inter-NIT championships.

Twenty faculty and staff members of the institute, led by Dr Ashok Kumar (Dean Students Welfare) as the team manager, participated in the championship held at Bhopal.