PNS|Vijayawada
KS Jawahar Reddy, the Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh, has directed the officials concerned to take steps to appoint international sports stars Karanam Malleswari, PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth, Dronavalli Harika, V Jyothi Surekha and Ambati Rayudu as Sports Ambassadors and participate in the prestigious ‘Adudam Andhra’ programmes. For that, sports officials should speak with them and efforts should be made to make them partners, he said.
The Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP) has prepared a schedule for the 46-day ‘Adudam Andhra’ sports festival which will be commencing on October 2. In this connection, CS Dr KS Jawahar Reddy conducted the ‘Adudam Andhra’ State-Level Apex Committee meeting at the camp office in Vijayawada on Monday.
In the meeting, CS enquired about the arrangements for the sports festival. He said that as part of the programme, they planned to conduct around three lakh matches from the village-level to the State-level. At the State-level, 250 matches will be conducted, apart from 312 matches at the district-level, 5,250 matches at the assembly constituency-level, 1.42 lakh matches at the mandal-level and 1.50 lakh matches at the Gram/Ward Sachivalayam, he added.
“All these matches will be conducted on a knockout basis. At the Gram/Ward stage, matches will be conducted for seven days. Also, mandal-level matches will last 16 days, constituency and district-level matches seven days each, and the finals at the State-level will continue for five days,” CS said.
He stated that ‘Adudam Andhra’ was focusing on five games — cricket, badminton, volleyball, kabaddi, and kho-kho. In addition to these games, marathon, yoga, and tennikoit events would be organised, he said. Cash prizes and mementoes would be presented at the constituency-level, district-level and State-level competitions, he added.
