Vrindavan, 2017.07.31 (VT): The second National Rural Olympics was held at Ramanlal Shorewala International Senior Secondary School in Rawal village this week.
The event, which ran from July 29th to 31st, featured kabaddi, kho-kho, volleyball, basketball, chess and table tennis. Players from fifteen states participated in the competition.
The event is perhaps to some degree inspired by (but not to be confused with) the Kila Raipur Sports Festival, formerly known as the Indian Rural Olympics, which is a local festival in Punjab.
But while the Kila Raipur festival features extreme Punjabi rural sports like horseback acrobatics and being run over by farm machinery, the National Rural Olympics gives rural youths from across India a chance to compete in more conventional sports.
The National Rural Olympics is currently in its second year. The inaugural competition was held in Nasik in 2016.
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