Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is determined to place Andhra Pradesh in the forefront of sports, said Animini Ravi Naidu, chairperson of the Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP), here on Wednesday (August 20). Speaking after inaugurating the zonal-level sports competitions at Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, he noted that National Sports Day would be celebrated in a grand manner in Visakhapatnam on August 29 in memory of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand Over 2,000 athletes from Nellore, Guntur, Palnadu, Bapatla, NTR, Krishna and Prakasam districts are participating in the ongoing zonal contests. Mr. Ravi Naidu, accompanied by SAAP directors A. Ramana Rao and S. Santosh Kumar, University Physical Education director Paul Kumar and CSR officer Venkata Ramana Manduru, lit the torch to formally launch the competitions.
