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First sports school for girls opens in Himachal’s Shimla district
Himachal's first 'School of Sports' for girls opened in Jubbal, Shimla district, on Friday. Education minister Rohit Thakur inaugurated the Thakur Ramlal Girls' School of Sports and laid the foundation for a…
The Story in Brief
Himachal's first 'School of Sports' for girls opened in Jubbal, Shimla district, on Friday. Education minister Rohit Thakur inaugurated the Thakur Ramlal Girls' School of Sports and laid the foundation for a new building costing Rs 2.78 crore. The school offers eight sports disciplines, including volleyball, and has 32 new posts sanctioned.
The government has provided Rs 20 lakh worth of equipment and will release Rs 72 lakh more. Six students from the hostel have been selected for the Indian girls' volleyball team at the 2026 World School Volleyball Championship in China. Thakur said the Congress government has also raised prize money for Olympic and Paralympic gold medalists.
The Indian Opinion
The Congress government announcing big prize hikes for Olympians while a remote girls' school gets Rs 2.78 crore is the kind of optics that invites sniping about vote-bank politics. Fair or not, the test will be whether these eight disciplines produce actual national-level athletes from Jubbal, or whether the 32 sanctioned posts stay vacant for months.
Source: hindustantimes.com
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