Sports Day
SPARDHA’24 - ANNUAL SPORTS DAY
By Mansi Joshi (M.Sc Final year)
A lifetime friendship can be formed between contemporaries through sports, and to keep the spirit of sportsmanship high, Spardha, our Annual Sports Day is celebrated every year in the month of February, and this year was no different. It’s a day when all the faculties, non – teaching staff and students take a break from their busy schedule and participate in a variety of sports. This year’s Spardha was organized on 15th February, Thursday. The weather was pleasant and music playing in the background set up the perfect environment and boosted the enthusiasm of everyone.
The event started with national anthem followed by a group photograph. Hereafter, the races began. Our sports committee organized a variety of races including lemon race, sac race, three – legged race and relay race. Along with the students, the faculty and staff members also participated in lemon and sac race. Among all the races, relay race was enjoyed the most by everyone.
This was followed by a light refreshment and the event commenced with cricket for girls and boys, the most awaited game of the entire event. The girls’ cricket match was played between the teams of PhD and M.Sc. students, while the boys’ cricket was played between the teams of faculty and staff versus PhD and M.Sc. students. Both the matches witnessed a plenty of breathtaking moments filled with lots of excitement and cheering, ending with celebrating the victory of respective winning teams. After a delectable lunch, the event proceeded with musical chairs and tug of war. The musical chairs was played by our teachers and students in two separate rounds. Following this, everyone rolled their sleeves for giving their opponent team a tough competition in tug of war, a game that require ample amount of strength and team work. After this, there was the Prize Distribution ceremony, in which the winners were felicitated with medals for their amazing performances. In cricket, Vijay Pal was declared as the Man of the Match and Priya Sinha was declared as the Woman of the Match. Even those who lost were nonetheless left with lifelong memories.
The last game of the day was everyone’s favourite badminton, which was enjoyed a lot by all. With this, the sports day came to an end, a day filled with memories, cheers, excitement and enthusiasm, a day to be remembered by all. We are grateful to our faculty, non – teaching staff and students for their ebullient participation. We would also like to thank our sports committee for organizing such a commendable event and making the event a great success.
Sports Day 2023
Sports Day 2020
SPARDHA’20 - ANNUAL SPORTS DAY
By Aparajita Sen
ORGANISERS: M.Sc. (Previous)
Every year, February is a much awaited month, as it brings with itself Spardha, our Annual Departmental Sports Day. It is a day when the students and staff all come together out into the field and indulge in a variety of games and races. Following tradition, this year too Spardha was organized on 7th February, Friday. It was a sunny winter morning and everyone was in their athletic forms, setting the perfect environment for a Sports Day. Loud music blared through the speakers, which further added to the enthusiasm of everyone!
The day started with the usual putting up of the banner, marking race tracks on the ground with chalk powder, and the Departmental group photograph. Following all this, the races commenced! Our juniors did a commendable job in organizing a plethora of races, like 200m race, lemon race, sack race, slow cycling race and 3 legged race. There were also games like dog and the bone, and blindfolded sponge water race, which were really enjoyed by everyone!
This was followed by light refreshment, and the event resumed with Cricket for girls and boys, which is always the center of attraction of our event. Mixed with cheering, music and a lot of excitement, the sport ended with respective winning teams, out of which Vishal was declared the Man of the Match, and Mansi was the Woman of the Match! After a wholesome lunch, we had tug of war, musical chairs for the staff, and finally the Prize Distribution Ceremony. The winners were awarded by our respected Professors and their photographs were clicked, and the ones who did not win were definitely rewarded with memories of a lifetime!
The day ended on a positive note with a friendly Badminton match amongst the students. At around 5:30 pm, we unwillingly stopped playing and started wrapping up. We would like to thank Abhishek Glass Industrial Corporation for sponsoring the event. We are also very grateful to our faculty, staff and other students for their exuberant participation, due to which the event was a grand success! Last but not the least, we are immensely thankful to Arpit Tyagi, Ritu Mann and the other organizers for their immense hard work in organizing the event successfully.