Encouraging children to participate actively in sports is the need of the hour, said DySP H R Mahadevaiah.
He was speaking after distributing prizes for th winners of road race and walkathon competitions held to mark the independence day by Relax association recently in Tiptur.
President medal awardee CPI G B Manjunath was felicitated by the organisation.
In men’s division, Santhosh from Tiptur bagged first place, Kemparaju from Tumkur won the second place, Manjappa from Tumkur bagged third place in the road race competition.
In women’s division of Road race, Disha Niranjan won the first place, Divya bagged second place and Sudha won the third place.
In the walkathon competition, Ramesh T G bagged first place, Yogish R S won second while, Hemanth got third place.
Organisation President G Nagaraju presided over the function. Dr Nagaraj and others were present.