Sports
The University Sports Department was established in 1996. The Sports Complex is spread in an area of 40 acres. The Sports Complex has one multipurpose hall for indoor games such as badminton, table tennis, carom board, chess, 13 station multi-gym, yoga and weightlifting. One half-cemented cricket pitch, one ground each for football, hand ball, cricket and 400-meter athletic track and three volleyball grounds. In addition, two cemented basketball courts with lights, two volleyball courts with fencing and lights, two synthetic lawn tennis courts with lights and fencing have recently been constructed. The sports equipment/kits are issued during tournaments.
The teaching departments have been divided into eight houses for sports competitions. The Inter-House Tournaments are conducted in games annually i.e., Chess, Football, Badminton, Table Tennis, Hand ball, Cross-Country Race, Weight lifting, Volleyball shooting & smashing, Cricket and Annual Athletic Meet. Sports facilities for indoor games have been created in the Boys and Girls Hostels. Adventure Sports activities are also conducted in events i.e. Skiing Course, Motor Bike Tour and Trekking etc.
The Executive Council has approved that one option out of Cultural/NSS/sports activities in undergraduate courses viz. B.Tech., BPTh. B.Pharma., etc. will be offered to student in first and third semester.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)