Ponnanna helps in improving mental and physical health

Virajpet, Feb. 12: Virajpet MLA and Chief Minister's Legal Advisor A.S. Ponnanna said that engaging in sports can improve physical and mental health and make you strong.

Speaking at the rural sports meet organized by the Youth Empowerment and Sports Department, Kodagu District Folk Council Virajpet Unit, Srikshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project Virajpet and Ponnampet taluk at the city's taluk ground by ringing the bell and lighting the lamp, Ponnanna said that rural sports are a part of our culture. We should all save and cultivate it. Just as winning and losing in sports is natural. Similarly, in a healthy society, even if we lose a hundred times, we should try to win again. We should all work towards preserving the rural sports meet culture. We should be determined to save it. Rural sports should be handed over to the next generation. Today's youth should develop a sports spirit, he said, and sports should become the spirit of everyone. Kodagu District Folklore Council President B.G. Ananthashayana presided over the meeting and said that state-level awards have been given to artists who are like the leaves of a tree in the rural area for the last 10 years. There should be no ego in folklore. There should be a sense of belonging to a family. Artists should use the opportunity of the platform they get and achieve. He expressed his appreciation that the MLA from Virajpet constituency is helping sports.

Kannada Sahitya Parishad President M.P. Keshava Kamath said that the songs that were sung in the rural areas in the past have grown into folk songs and have become a very rich art. Kannada Sahitya Parishad Immediate Past President Lokesh Sagar said that all types of folk arts and sports in Karnataka can be found only in Kodagu. 

 There are no other districts with so many arts and sports. He appealed to the MLAs to cooperate in unveiling and encouraging the art of Kodagu by establishing a folk academy.

Leelavathi, Director of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project, said that women are busy working at home without a break. She said that it is a good thing that the government and organizations have given them the opportunity to participate in such a rural sports event.

Present on the stage were the immediate past president of the municipality, Dechamma Kalappa, Secretary of the District Janapada Parishad, Ujwal Ranjith, President of the Virajpet unit, Tommy Thomas, General Secretary Rajitha Cariappa, President of the Ponnampet unit, Dilan Changappa, General Secretary Geetha Naidu, Dharmasthala Rural Development Project Officer P. Harish, President of the Kushalnagar unit, Chandramohan, Treasurer of the district unit, Sampath Kumar, Naveen Ambekal and others.

The program included Dharmasthala Rural Development Project Supervisor Shivakumar, service representatives Meenakshi, Veena, James, Bindu, office bearers of the Janapada Parishad Veena Ravi, Fancy Muthanna, Ranjitha Kavalapara, Ranjith Kiggalu, Ranjini, Pramila Nachaiah, Gowru Nanjappa, Shobha Subbaiah, Krupa Devaraj, district unit vice president Ambekal Kushalappa, office bearers Nalinakshi, Anita, Rajesh, T.D. Mohan, Chambada Muddappa, Girish Kiggalu, Harish Kiggalu, Ha.T. Jayaprakash, Siddharaju Bellaiah, Prema Raghavaiah, Vailesh, Vancheera Nanaiah and many others. Writer Krupa Devaraju, who won the Gouramma Dattinidhi Award, was felicitated on the stage. Later, various rural sports events were held.

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