Khel Mahakumbh 2011 inauguration tomorrow, Akshay Kumar special guest, 2.2 million participants

Vadodara, 27 November, 2011

Over 2.2 million players from across the state have registered for taking part in Khel Mahakumbh starting from tomorrow. Last year there were 15 lakh players in the first Khel Mahakumbh which was held in Gandhinagar. ‘Khel Mahakumbh’ is an initiative by the state government to promote sports activities. This year Khel Mahakumbh has some new attractions like beach volleyball, beach football and beach cricket.

Actor Akshay Kumar will be a special invitee at the inauguration of a sports jamboree organized by Gujarat Government in Vadodara’s MS University pavilion.

Akshay Kumar is the brand ambassador for the sports for physically handicapped persons in the country and over 60,000 disabled persons from Gujarat are participating in the sports jamboree.

Akshay had visited Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in this regard a week back.

The mega event has been held since last year for common people and the special khel maha kumbh for categories of the differently-able, physically handicapped, intellectually disabled, visually challenged and speech & hearing impaired persons.

The torch for the mega event arrived in Vadodara today after traversing distance of 2550 km across the state. The logo of the event to be inaugurated tomorrow bears the international symbol for the handicapped along with normal sports persons, Jha said.