BHOPAL: A three-day All India LIC Games 2015-2016 of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) will be inaugurated at TT Stadium on Thursday by LIC Chairman SK Roy. As many as 499 participants from 8 zones would take part in the event. Athletics, badminton, carom, chess, table tennis and volleyball matches would be played during the championship.
Prominent athletes including Gurmeet Kaur, V Santhini, C Arya, PS Primesh, Sunil Goswami, Aniruddha Gujar, Monika Athare, Anu Marian Jose, Hemasree, Dharambir will be taking part. Similarly, chess players namely Sriram Jha, Swati Ghate, Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Anup Deshmukh, Atanu Lahiri, Dinesh Sharma, Prakash Gaikwad, S Apporva, P Nirmala will participate in it. Volleyball player MN Vikram, table tennis player R Rajesh, Jaison Xavier and badminton player NN Vinayak will also take part. Dharambir won a bronze medal. in the 21st Asian Athletic Champ at Wuhan, China Joyline M Lobo won silver medal in the 19th Federation Cup in triple jump.