This time selected PETs will go in selected 6 VKVs and their expertise will be used to train/orient students in that particular area (Marchpast, Volleyball, Football, Rope and Pole Malkhamb, Badminton, Kho-Kho, Basket Ball, Yoga, Chess, Khabadi, Lezim are the few selected items) VKVs Itanagar, Roing, Vivek Vihar, Yazali Jirdin and Dado are in the selected schools now. Below is report came in Arunachal Times about VKV Itanagar.
By August all six venues will complete their training prog. for 10 days. Other schools also will get the opportunity once 1st Round of selected schools complete.
A specially designed 10-day coaching camp for students of VKV, Itanagar was inaugurated by Director of Sports and Youth Affairs DK Dinglow on 15th July. While offering Sangey Lhaden Sports Academy for training the students of the school, Dinglow said that there is no dearth of sports talent in Arunachal Pradesh but the state lacks infrastructure. About 90 selected students of the school will get training under guidance of experienced coach and trainers in various sports disciplines during the camp. Shri S.C. Dixit, Principal VKV Itanagar and P.M. Unnikrishnan, Education Officer of VKV in Arunachal Pradesh also spoke and explained the need of grooming budding sports talents in the right age through regular coaching and training.
