Published: April 10, 2011

Participation of Eminent Athletic Personalities at Kila Raipur Rural Sport Festival-A Case Study

Paramvir Singh
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Abstract

Kila Raipur; a village of Ludhiana district in Punjab is well known for its rural sports festival called „Rural Olympics‟. Purpose of the present study was to explore the salient features of this famous rural sports festival that has its origin in pre independence era. Grewals of this village has played a significant role to organize this sports festival successfully since its inception. Grewals are the descendents of Chandel Rajputs; the ruler of Budhel Khand, and comes in most educated classes among the Jatts of Punjab. In July 1934, the first sports meet was organized including volleyball, Kabaddi and a few athletic events. Since then it has been organizing as the annual rural sports meet. Information for this study was collected from primary and secondary sources. In 1934 this sports festival was started with few events and only local athletes took part in athletic events, but now it has become the competition arena of national and international athletes. Many eminent sports personalities have participated here including Gurbachan Singh Randhawa, Parveen Kumar and many more..

Keywords
Athletic Personalities Place of Event Sports Festival                                  
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