09/09/2014
Amritsar Rifle Club was allotted the 15th Punjab State Inter School Shooting Championship, 2014, by Punjab Rifle Shooting Association, which was held at the 10M Shooting Range, GNDU Campus Amritsar. The tournament dates were 19th August to 21st August 2014 and concluded with 268 participants from 19 Districts of Punjab, where categories were divided in two variants according to the age as youth(U-15) and junior(U-19).
This tournament was conducted under the aegis of S. Bikram Singh Majithia, who is also the President of Punjab Rifle Shooting Association(PRSA).
The closing ceremony, at the end of the tournament was conducted at the Guru Nanak Bhawan, GNDU, where the winners of all 16 events were presented cash prizes (Rs 21000 to Gold, Rs 14000 to Silver and Rs 7000 to bronze)by out Chief Guest, S. Bikram Singh Majithia and Guest of Honors, Raja K.S. Sidhu (Secretary General, Punjab Olympic Association), Avneet Sidhu (Olympian and World Champion), S. Jatinder Singh Aulakh and more.
S. Bikram Singh Majithia has also announced Rs 5.2 Crores for appraisal of the Shooting Sport in Punjab put of which a sum of Rs 2 Crores will be spent on making a world class shooting range in Amritsar.
Men behind the success of the event were,S. Inderbir Singh Bolaria (President, Amritsar Rifle Club), S. Deep Singh Sidhu (Secretary General PRSA), Maj. ShivCharan Singh (Sr. VP Amritsar Rifle Club), S. Parminder Singh Brar (VP, PRSA), S. Sahiljit Singh Sandhu (VP Amritsar Rifle Club), S. Manpreet Singh Thekedar (VP Amritsar Rifle Club), S. Dilsher Singh Sandhu (General Secretary, Amritsar Rifle Club), Capt. APS Randhawa (Treasurer, Amritsar Rifle Club), S. Tejbir Singh Sandhu (Sr. Jt. Secretary), Coach Rajwinder Kaur (Jt. Secretary, Amritsar Rifle Club), S. Raj Kanwal Singh Sekhon (Executive Memeber, Amritsar Rifle Club) and Vineet Saini (Executive Member, Amritsar Rifle Club)