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Rugby introduced to Jaffna

For the first time in history, rugby was introduced to Jaffna by the Development Committee of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union SLRFU. This programme which was a great success took place at the Duraiyappa Stadium, Jaffna, recently.

The Education Department for the first time had decided to start with seven sports from 2011. They have included seven sports in the main curriculum of grade six, said Nalin de Silva (Group Captain Chairman Rugby Development Committee).

Rugby is also included in the seven sports which is a great asset to the Rugby Development Committee of SLRFU.

The Union took 60 schoolchildren under 14 of age from Sabaragamuwa which was divided to four teams out of which two boys teams and two girls teams were formed with one boys and one girls team.

The main aim is developing rugby at provincial level with the permission of Education Department. Nalin further said that they are developing rugby at junior level under 10, 12, 14 and 16. The Education Department under Mahinda Chinthana ‘Idiri Dakma’, every child has to do some sports, with the intention of building inter-community relationship through rugby.

This development programme was launched with the help of the national coach New Zealander Ellis Meachen, He trained 30 Physical Training Instructors from schools in Jaffna, which was taught the basic rugby. In addition to that, two teams were trained from Jaffna and distributed rugby balls to the PTIs at the end of the training programme.

This training programme was on tag rugby and tackling rugby. The whole training programme was organized by the Northern Security Forces under Commander Maj Gen Mahinda Haturusinghe, assisted by Brig Piyal Wickramaratne, Col Christy Jayasingha, Lt Col Kumudu Waduge and Lt Col Jayantha Patabandige.

This historic ceremony was attended by Mrs Imalda Sukumar (GA, Jaffna) and Yogeswari Pathgunaraja (Mayor of Jaffna).

To understand the importance of protecting the environment, trees were planted by the schoolchildren and PTIs to introduce the sports and environmental leadership.

The whole programme was looked after by the Army under the patronage of Maj General Mahinda Hathurusinghe under the civil military social programme.

The transport for all 60 children from Sabaragamuwa to Jaffna was provided by Arjun Dharmadasa, former Chairman Development Committee while the staff transport was provided by H M Gunasekara, Secretary, Education Department, Rohana Karunaratne, Director of Sports Education Department and Milroy Jayamanne Project Director.

The whole programme was coordinated by Group Captain Nalin de Silva, Chairman Rugby Development Committee SLRFU and K S P Karunaratne, Secretary Sabaragamuwa Rugby Union.

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