Tura, Sep 28: The Meghalaya Board of School Education, commemorating their Golden Jubilee, has initiated an Inter-School tug-of-war competition on Thursday at the New Tura Field in collaboration with the Office of District Sports.

The event started with the registration of the teams at 9:30 a.m., an inauguration at 10 a.m., and the competition starting at 10:30 a.m. Only 13 players were allowed in each team, with one boy team and one girl team from each school.

There were a total of 5 schools from Tura who participated, namely Mother’s Union Secondary School, Don Bosco Secondary School, Sherwood Secondary School, Montfort Centre of Education School, and Rootland Secondary School, with an accumulation of 10 teams in total of both boys and girls.

In the girls tug-of-war division, the Montfort Centre of Education took the gold medals, with the Mother’s Unions Secondary School being the runners-up, taking the silver medals, and in the boys division, Don Bosco Secondary School was the one to capture the winning position, whereas Sherwood Secondary School became the runners-up.

The event was graced by T. R. Laloo, Controller of Examinations, MBOSE, and in his speech, he gave thanks to the DSO for their collaboration and also to the teachers of the school who were present there.

He also said that MBOSE is working hard towards the betterment of the students and the quality of education in the state.

Also in this event, prizes were distributed to the winners by Senora N Sangma, LSEO Office of the Jt DSEO, West Garo Hills Meghalaya and Rollingstone M Sangma, Table Tennis Coach.

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