PU releases tentative calendar for inter-college championships

Deepankar Sharda

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 22

After hearing no words from the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) over conducting inter-university championships, Panjab University issued a tentative calendar for organising inter-college championships for various disciplines.

For over 14 months, Panjab University did not conduct any inter-college championship owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Usually, the Directorate of Sports, Panjab University, starts organising inter-college championships in the month of July.

As per the tentative calendar (subject to announcement made by the AIU), the Sports Department will host inter-college competitions for swimming, water polo and diving (men and women) in the first week of October. It will be followed by archery (men and women), athletics (men and women), badminton (men and women), baseball (men), basketball (men and women), boxing (men and women), bridge (men and women), canoeing and kayaking (men and women), chess (men and women), cricket (men and women) and cross country (men and women) competitions in the same month.

In November, events for cycling road (men and women), cycling track and road (men and women), fencing (men and women), football (men and women), gatka (men and women), golf (men and women), artistic gymnastics (men and women) and rhythmic (women), handball (men and women), hockey (men and women), judo (men and women), national style kabaddi (men and women), kho-kho (men and women), shooting (men and women), soft tennis (men and women), squash racquet (men and women), table tennis (men and women), tennis (men and women) and volleyball (men and women) are scheduled to be organised.

In December, the Directorate of Sports will conduct only wrestling championships - freestyle (men and women) and Greco Roman (men).

After a brief break, inter-college events for netball (women), Pencak silat (men and women), roller sports (men and women), rowing (men and women), rugby (men and women), sepak takraw (men and women) and taekwondo (men and women) are scheduled for January 2022.

In the next month, championships for softball (women), weight lifting (men and women) and wushu (men and women) will be organised, while in March only yoga (men and women) championships are scheduled to be conducted.

Colleges and other participants have been asked to send their entries for these events till last week of September 30.

Meanwhile, the AIU has not sent any schedule for conducting north zone and all-India inter-university championships.

As per the schedule, championships for B-Division (colleges having strength of 500 students) will start from October. Inter-college basketball events (men) will be conducted in October, followed by events for athletics (men and women), volleyball (men), football (men) and cricket (men) in November. Hockey (men) and circle kabaddi will be conducted in December and kabaddi (national style) will be organised in January.

In the women’s category, events for basketball and badminton are scheduled in October, volleyball and table tennis in November and kho-kho in December.

The C-Division (evening and BEd colleges) category will start from athletics (men and women) in November, followed by events, including badminton, table tennis, kabaddi, basketball, volleyball, football and hockey, in March 2022. For women’s category, badminton and basketball are announced to be conducted in October, followed by table tennis and kho-kho in November and volleyball and yoga in March 2022.

“Keeping in mind the current scenario, inter-college competitions should be organised. Players have been waiting for such platforms to showcase their talent,” said a coach.