The Andhra Pradesh (A.P.) government will be organising annual sports festivals from mandal to the State level under Adudam Andhra programme from this year to encourage more youth to actively participate in sports and games and identify talent for further grooming.
Taking stock of the arrangements for it at a review meeting of the Department of Youth Advancement, Tourism and Culture (Sports) at his camp office at Tadepalli near here on Thursday, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy said focus should be laid on cricket, badminton, volleyball, kabaddi and kho-kho and other disciplines like yoga, marathon, tennikoit and traditional games.
