Mata Sahib Kaur Sports Club of Jarkhar village on the Ludhiana-Malerkotla road took lead over others as the opening ceremony of the 26th edition of the annual sports festival began today under floodlights.
The organisers of the sports festival, popularly known as “mini modern rural Olympics”, have emerged as pioneers by holding the inaugural function of a rural festival under artificial lights.
The stadium of the village was jampacked well before the games torch arrived there. The torch procession had started yesterday from Olympian Surjit Singh Randhawa Stadium, Jalandhar. A large number of former and current sports stars along with sports lovers were present during the flag-off ceremony.
