Patiala, India, February 2, 2023: The Acting President of the Olympic Council of Asia, Raja Randhir Singh, opened a new shooting range named after himself as part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Yadavindra Public School (YPS), Patiala, Punjab.
The famous public school celebrated day two of YPS@75 on Wednesday, February 1 with the inauguration of a state-of-the-art underground shooting range and cricket pavilion on the campus.
The other activities included Pagal Gymkhana games and cricket and basketball matches between old students and present Yadavindrians.
The day’s celebrations were witnessed by the esteemed YPS Board of Governors, Aitchison Yadavindra Old Students' Association (AYOSA) executives, eminent guests, old students, YPS staff and students.
The shooting range is named after Raja Randhir Singh, famous Olympian and Arjuna Awardee, a YPS alumnus, who represented India in the Olympic Games, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.
It is a composite shooting range comprising 10m, 25m and 50m targets and is the first fully indoor shooting range in the country; it will provide training to students of the national and International level.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by Old Yadavindrians who have made their mark in the sport, namely Ekam Singh mandi, Achal Pratap Singh, Simranpreet kaur Johal, Harveen sarao, Raj Kanwar Singh Sandhu, Abhay Sekhon and school’s class X shooting player, Mridvika Bhardwaj.
The other addition to the YPS campus is the cricket pavilion, which is a true replica of one present in Aitchison College, Lahore. It is dedicated to Lala Amarnath, a Padma Bhushan Awardee, an Indian cricket patriarchal figure and the first captain of the Indian cricket team of independent India. The pavilion was inaugurated by Mr Surendra Amarnath, a former member of the Indian cricket team.
“A plethora of events on Day 2 of YPS Foundation Day celebrations kept everyone amused. The whole campus reverberated with joy and excitement,” Patiala Politics observed.
Considered among the top rung of Indian public schools, YPS Patiala is an English medium boarding/day school founded in 1948 by the late His Highness Maharaja Adhiraj Yadavindra Singh.