From Sanjay Borkar in Margao
for Daijiworld Media Network - Goa (mb)

Margao, Jan 6: The 13th ‘Goa Youth Festival 2007’, under the auspices of the Konkani Bhasha Mandal (KBM) and Srujan Sanstha - Sanguem, will be held on the police station playground at Sanguem January 12 and 13, 2008.

As part of the festival, sports minister Manohar "Babu" Azgaonkar inaugurated the two-day sports festival on January 5 at Neturlem, a verdant place of Goa boundary, located at 75 kms from here.

Langadi, Tablam, Logoreo, Panch Fator, Sakanni (Sack), Koinde Ball, Cockfight and other traditional sports, which are going to be extinct, were to be played in the two-day festival.

KBM, with a view to providing encouragement and platform to the talent of the youth from every corner of Goa and to preserve the indigenous art and music, has been organizing the enthusiastic gala event for last 12 years.

This year festival has added some unique programmes in it. Holding of traditional sports and games would be one of them.

Sanguem MLA Vasudev Gaonkar is heading the reception Committee.

Winning groups are awarded attractive prizes on the concluding day. When contacted, KBM president Purnanand Chari said that this year more youths were expected to take part than last year. The sports festival would also be more unique this time.

For more information contact:  KBM 2750585, Purnanand Chari 98225 54652, Amey Prabhudesai 98221 33595, Shridhar Kamat 98812 54394, Prashant Naik 94220 57012, Anant Agni 94224 39903, Chetan Acharya 94223 89290, Nityanand Naik 98224 86075, Suraj Komarpant 98504 12552, Pradeep Kakodkar 98221 27130, Rajendra Naik 98221 26618, Vinay Naik 98603 22077, Revansiddha Naik 99230 96448 or Bindiya Vast 98239 50095.