Sardar Bhagwant Singh Memorial Basketball Trophy-2023 from Oct 14 to 20

Published on: 12 Oct 2023 at 11:23 AM

Published by: thefactnews

The Fact News Service

Chandigarh, October 12

Tricity’s biggest and now a very much iconic inter school ‘annual sports calendar event’ – SardarBhagwant Singh Memorial Basketball Trophy(BSMBT)-2023 – will be held at Sports Complex-42 here from October 14-20, 2023.

As many as 72 teams in the categories of both Boys and Girls will be vying for honours in the coveted inter-school basketball tourney.

Talking to media persons at a curtain raiser press meet about the BSMBT’ 23 at the Press Club here, HS Mamik, Chairman, Vivek High School, said that this is the tricity’s biggest basketball tournament.

Started in 2013. “This tournament is organized every year by Vivek High School in the memory of my father, Late Sardar Bhagwant Singh,”said Mamik.

HS Mamik added that the inter-school championship will have student participants in the age brackets of Under-12, Under-14 and Under-17 Boys and Girls, and the tournament will be played under the rules and regulations of the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) on a knock out basis. Twenty-five (25) top schools of the tricity have already registered for the tourney, he said.

It is to be noted that Late Sardar Bhagwant Singh believed that true education meant ensuring children develop holistically.