PANAJI
Shree Nirakar Education Society’s S.S. Angle Higher Secondary School, Mashem, Canacona, felicitated 11 of its students for their achievements in sports and for representing Goa at various national-level sporting competitions held across the country.
The students were recognised for their dedication, talent and commitment in different sporting disciplines, including leather-ball cricket, tennis-ball cricket, Mallakhamb, netball and kabaddi.
Former bureaucrat Dr. Levinson Martins, former chairman of the Goa State Pollution Control Board, was the chief guest at the function, while Damodar Gaonkar, Principal of Government Higher Secondary School, Canacona, was the guest of honour. The programme was presided over by Prashant Naik, chairman of Shree Nirakar Education Society.
The students felicitated were Raj Bandekar, who represented Goa in a leather-ball cricket tournament in Bengaluru; Vedant Pagi, who participated in the All India Inter-Zonal Tennis Ball Cricket Tournament at Nagrota, Himachal Pradesh; Arnav Gaonkar and Gouresh Velip, who competed in the 33rd Junior National Tennis Ball Cricket Championship at Agra, Uttar Pradesh; Ganadesh Gosavi, who represented Goa at the National School Games Mallakhamb Championship in Bihar; Adhvay Salelkar, who participated in the 69th National School Games Netball Championship at Mangaluru, Karnataka; Sanvi Pagi, who competed in the Senior National T-10 Tennis Ball Cricket Championship at Jagannath Puri, Odisha, and the Under-19 Junior T-10 Tennis Ball Cricket Championship in Himachal Pradesh; Saira Sudhir, who participated in the Senior National T-10 Tennis Ball Cricket Championship at Jagannath Puri, Odisha; Jiya Chari and Siya Naik, who represented Goa at the National School Games Mallakhamb Championship in Bihar; and Pratiksha Velip, who participated in the 69th National School Games Kabaddi Championship at Kokamthan, Maharashtra.
