#Faridabad to host first State level #Kickboxing Championship

On Dec 28, 2015

Faridabad to host first State level Kickboxing Championship

Faridabad: Faridabad would be hosting the ‘First Chief Ministers Trophy- State level Kickboxing Championship’ to be held from 1st to 3^rd January 2016. This information was shared by Rajkumar Agrawal, President District Kickboxing Association Faridabad. He was addressing a meeting of the members of District Kickboxing Association at the Golf Club Faridabad. Agrawal informed that this the first time that such championship is being organised. He further informed that on the occasion of the inauguration of the championship on 1^st January, Shree Shyam Singh Rana, Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Haryana would be the chief guest. The program on the inaugural day would be presided over by the Chief Parliamentary Secretary Haryana, Smt. Seema Trikha.

Agrawal also informed that the Member of Parliament from Faridabad, Minister of state for Social Welfare and Empowerment Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar has kindly consented to be the chief guest of the closing ceremony to be held on 3^rd January 2016. Smt. Seema Trikha would be presiding over the proceedings on the closing day too. The Guest of Honour on the closing day would be Sh. Naresh Malik, General Secretary Haryana Olympic Committee.

Sensei Santosh Agrawal, General Secretary District Kickboxing Association Faridabad, informed that the championship is being organised in compliance of the new sports policy 2015 of the state government. He informed that 400 kick boxers would be participating that includes the girl kick boxers too. Santosh Agrawal who is also the General Secretary Haryana Kickboxing Association and International Referee for the sport further informed that the championship would pave the way to shortlist the players for the forthcoming other championships. These championships include:

Haryana State Sports Festival 2015-16 to be held at Kurukshetra from 28^th to 31^st January 2016
National Junior Kickboxing Championship to be held at Delhi from 16^th to 21^st February 2016
Federation Cup Kickboxing 2015-16 also to be held on 16^th to 21^st February 2016

The members present on the occasion included Mr. Anand Mehta, Mr. Vikas Agrawal, Mr. Pawan Kumar Nagpal, Mr. Veerbhan Sharma, Mr. Sanjiv Pathak, Mr. Ramakant Saboo, Mr. Deepak Tantia, Mr. Ashok Chaudhary and Mr. R.K.Verma.