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Seven-in-a-row for St. Joseph’s

Special Correspondent

— Photo: R. Shivaji Rao

PROUD MOMENT: Babu Manoharan (centre) receiving the Champion of Champions Trophy from K. Ganesan (left) and P. Mannar Jawahar.

Chennai: For the seventh year in succession, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering annexed the Champion of Champions Trophy, garnering a whopping tally of 660 points in the Anna University Sports Board competitions involving over 200 institutions last year.

Babu Manoharan, director, St. Joseph’s College, received the trophy at a function held at the Anna University campus on Thursday.

Sethu Institute of Technology (Virudunagar) (340 points) and Sona College of Technology (Salem) (330 points) finished second and third respectively.

Importance of sport

Commending the sportsmen and women as also the institutions that shaped them into achievers in various disciplines, K. Ganesan, principal secretary, Department of Higher Education, Government of Tamil Nadu, underlined the essence of sports in the life of a person, and urged institutions to ensure the state-of-the-art infrastructure in all disciplines for the practitioners to reach perfection.

Identifying himself as a passionate votary who enjoyed playing and observing sport, Mr. Ganesan pointed out sport as a symbol of “national pride,” and appealed to educational institutions to act as a catalyst in the promotion of it.

He hailed the effort behind making the Tamil Nadu Sports University a reality as unique and worthy of emulation by other states.

Mr. Ganesan conceded that the appeal to enhance sports quota in admission had merit and should be pursued. He welcomed the idea of making sport as a mandatory subject.

Earlier, P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University, highlighted the importance of sport in education and the country’s tradition in that area. Dr. Jawahar outlined the emphasis on sport in the university. P. Ganesan, chairman, Anna University Sports Board, welcomed the gathering.

Zonal champions: Zone 1: Velammal College of Engineering; 2. College of Engineering (Guindy); 3. St. Joseph’s, 4. BSA Crescent Engineering; 5. Arunai Engineering College (Tiruvannamalai); 6. Sona College of Technology (Salem); 7. P.S.G. College of Technology (Coimbatore); 8. J.J. College of Engineering (Tiruchi); 9. Sethu Institute of Technology (Virudunagar) and 10. Arulmigu Kasalalingam College of Engineering (Virudunagar) & Mepco Schlenk Engineering (Virudunagar).

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