Bollywood star Akshay Kumar will attend the inauguration ceremony of country’s first Multisport festival – Khasdar Krida Mahotsav on May 6 in Nagpur.
The Khasdar Krida Mahotsav – to be promoted as Chak de, Khelo Nagpur Khelo – is country’s first multisport festival, which will provide a platform not only to the fitness enthusiasts and amateur sportspersons but also to the professional players of the city to showcase their talent in a competition format at the grassroots level.
With the rising temperature the organizing committee of the Khasdar Krida Mahotsav have decided to change the venue of the opening ceremony from Yeshwant Stadium to the Indoor Stadium of Divisional Sports Complex, Mankapur.
The games that would be part of the inaugural edition comprise of football, kho-kho, tennis ball cricket (men), tennis, basketball, carrom, skating, athletics, swimming, volleyball, badminton, hockey, chess, kabaddi, table tennis, cycling, girls cricket, wrestling, body building and walkathon.
The inauguration of the 20-day, 20-game and Rs 62,82,200 prize money sporting extravaganza will be done by the hands of Sports Minister and Olympic medalist Rajyavardhan Rathore. Union minister Nitin Gadkari will preside over the function. On the occasion, national badminton coach padmashree and padmabhushan Pullela Gopichand will be the guest of honour along with Akshay Kumar.
The opening ceremony of the event which is expected to attract a participation of over 25,000 fitness enthusiasts of the city will begin at 5pm with a 35-minute show of some local sports being planned to be performed by city players informed convener of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav -Sandip Joshi.
The organizing committee of Khasdar Krida Mahotsav unveiled the official mascot of Nation’s first grassroot level multisport event at a city hotel on Tuesday. The mascot – tigress ‘Maya’ – was launched by guardian minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule in the presence of officials of all the 20 sports disciplines.
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