AIU’s All India Inter University (Inter-Zonal) Kho-Kho (Men) Championship 2012-13 inaugurated at LPU

*Qualifying 16 teams from four zones will compete on six days for league and knock out matches, up to 30th January 2013

* 22 Sports Officials, 32 Team Managers & 192 Kho Kho players are participating from leading Universities of prominent 11 Indian States and Union territory   

* “Each player should prefer to play under exhibition of true sportsman spirit”: said LPU Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal

* Eight teams (2 each) from 4 Pools won their respective league matches on the inaugural day

* LPU won its first league match played against Deen Dyal Upadhyay University, Gorakhpur by 9/8.

Jalandhar: After successful organization of zonal championship, Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi, has further entrusted the responsibility of organizing very prestigious All India Inter University (Inter-Zonal) Kho-Kho (Men) Championship 2012-13 to Lovely Professional University, Punjab, from 25 to 30th January 2013. In this regard, Zonal League Matches’ winning teams of 16 Universities, from four zones across India, are competing for national level 24 league and 8 knock out matches.  In this mega kho kho organization, 22 Sports Officials, 32 Team Managers/Coaches and 192 Kho Kho players are participating actively. On the inaugural day, today, eight teams won their respective league matches. In between the University competitions, show matches among local school teams are also being played to further promote kho kho game. LPU won its first league match today played against Deen Dyal Upadhyay University, Gorakhpur by 9/8.

 Inaugurating the championship and welcoming the sports fraternity to the LPU kho-kho arena, LPU Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal congratulated each and everyone to be historic part of this organization: “We are very delighted to see a sea of sports enthusiasts at the campus. I accord good wishes to all the players that they may come out with the best of skills in them to bring laurels for their respective university. I also want that each player should prefer to play under exhibition of true sportsman spirit, rather than aspiring to be a winner alone.” Mr Mittal specially thanked AIU’s Officials for showing their firm faith in LPU’s organizing potentialities.

Two of the team managers from South and East Zones, Mr D Koteswara Rao (Acharya Nagarjuna University Andhra Pradesh and Mr Bablu Sarkar (West Bengal State University Kolkata) shared that they are very pleased to see the best of arrangements for participants’ lodging- boarding as well as the organization of championship at the apt kho kho arena: “Arrangements at LPU are superb and this is really boosting the players to reveal their worth.  We have never seen such a congenial and good natured atmosphere prior to this. In fact, we had heard a lot about the great hospitality of Punjab and that has really been coming true day by day through LPU. We will never forget our first visit to the state of Punjab.”      

The participating Universities during this championship,  as per their first, second, third and fourth placing in their respective zonal matches are:  University of North Bengal, DDU Gorakhpur, Utkal University, West Bengal State University from East Zone; from South Zone are Nagarjuna University, Mangalore University, Anna Malai University, Calicut University;  from West Zone are Shivaji University Kohlapur, University Of Mumbai, Pune University, NMU Jalgaon and from North Zone are LPU Phagwara, GNDU Amritsar, MDU Rohtak, PU Chandigarh. 

Results of First Day League Matches

S.No.	Matches	Results
1	LPU vs Deen Dyal Upadhyay University	LPU won by 9/8
2	Univ. of North Bengal vs Mangalore University	Mangalore University won by 22/11
3	Nagarjuna University vs Mumbai University	Mumbai University won by 13/12
4	Shivaji University vs GNDU	Shivaji University won by 14/13
5	Pune University vs Punjab University	Pune University won by 17/16

List of Participating Universities:

S.No.	ZONE	Name of the University	City/State/UT
1	East Zone	University of North Bengal	Darjeeling, West Bengal
2		Deen Dayal Upadhyay University	Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
3		Utkal University	Bhubaneswar, Odisha
4		West Bengal State University	Kolkata, West Bengal
5	South Zone	Acharya Nagarjuna University	Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
6		Mangalore University	Konaje-Mangalore, Karnataka
7		Annamalai University	Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu
8		University of Calicut	Kozhikode, Kerala
9	West Zone	Shivaji University	Kolhapur, Maharashtra
10		University of Mumbai	Mumbai, Maharashtra
11		University of Pune	Pune, Maharashtra
12		North Maharashtra University (NMU)	Jalgaon, Maharashtra
13	North Zone	Lovely Professional University	Phagwara, Punjab
14		Guru Nanak Dev University	Amritsar, Punjab
15		Maharshi Dayanand University	Rohtak, Haryana
16		Punjab University	Chandigarh