“All work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. This isn’t just a small proverb, this is
the formula to make people more efficient and work more effectively yielding
more output. Yes, Sports is the fuel and at ITS Engineering College, Greater
Noida, they take care of this section greatly.
ITS
Engineering College believes that a healthy mind resides inside a healthy body.
It understands the importance of an agile body and its multiple health
benefits. Hence, ITS offers numerous sports opportunities to its students by
conducting various inter-college and interzonal sports events.
While sports
have many health benefits, it can be utilized in many other ways too and ITS
understands that it can be utilized to bring out and develop the character of
the students more. Hence, here at ITS, sports are looked at as an opportunity
to build up the students’ leadership qualities as well as their creativity.
The college
not only encourages its students to just take part in sports but also provides
them with facilities that are of high standards. ITS boasts of different sports
facilities on its campus, like badminton court, basketball court and table
tennis court. Other than these indoor sports facilities, there are grounds for outdoor
sports like football, volleyball, kabaddi, kho-kho and a standard track for
athletics.
And apart
from these facilities, the college provides its students with a wide number of
activities and programs both on campus and in the community. And all these
extracurricular activities provide them with many short and long-term benefits.
Each year
the college hosts UDGHOSH SPORTS FEST which is an annual sports competition.
Udghosh provides the perfect platform for the students to showcase their sports
talent as well as their sportsmanship and leadership qualities. It is one of
the most awaited events at ITS.
And to bring
healthy competitiveness in the games, the students are allotted houses that
compete among themselves to win the sports. There are four houses in ITS that
compete among themselves for the trophy, they are Agni House, Vayu House, Salil
House and Vyom House. This event helps to bring the students together to work
as a team and achieve their goals.
The sports
event in Udghosh has a variety of sports to participate in. There are a total
of 14 sports to the tally such as Football, Cricket, Volleyball, Futsal,
Carrom, Table Tennis, Kho-Kho, Badminton, Athletics, Basketball, Chess, Tug of
War and Powerlifting.
Now coming
to achievements, students of ITS has bagged a lot of trophies and medals to
their and their college’s name in various inter-college and interzonal
competitions. To name a few of the champions, ITS is proud to have Sheell
Vardhan a student of B.Tech, Final Year who won Gold Medal in 2018-19 and a
silver medal in 2019-20 Zonal level AKTU Sports. Payal Singh a student of
B.Tech 2nd year won the Gold Medal at the 2018-19 Zonal level AKTU Sports in
Chess.
In other
important sports achievements, for the first time in the history of Dr. APJ
Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, a Zonal Level Kabaddi
sports competition was organized in which ITS Engineering College won the Gold
Medal. Apart from this the college also won Silver Medal in Chess and Shotput
and Sakshi Gupta grabbed a bronze medal in the 200m race.
Some other
achievements by students of ITS at AKTU Zonal Sports are:
·
The
Volleyball Team bagged Silver Trophy in the AKTU Zonal Sports Fest 2018-19.
·
Nikunj
Rakesh, Vikas Bhati, Aman Singh & Rajiv Ranjan won 2nd prize – 4x100m
relay, AKTU Zonal.
·
Nikunj
Rakesh, Rajesh Thakur, Aquib Javed & Ashwin Tomar bagged 2nd prize – 4x400m
relay, AKTU Zonal.
Some of the
important Sports Achievements by ITS in 2018-19 are:
- ITS Engineering College bagged 10 Medals
in Dr. AKTU Zonal Sports Fest.
- 2 Gold Medals in Chess and Shot Put.
- 6 Silver and 2
Bronze Medals in Athletics, Volleyball, Kho-Kho, etc.
- The volleyball Team stood 2nd in MOSIAC
2018.
- The Cricket Team bagged the 2nd Prize in
RANN, KIET, 2018.
On the end
note, Sports is an opportunity to build and bring out sportsmanship and
leadership qualities. And at ITS, we believe sports is the fuel towards
bringing out the creativity and efficiency in humans.