NATIONAL SPORTS AND PHYSICAL FITNESS PROGRAMME OF CORPS OF ENGINEERS
With the direction of his Excellency the President, Ministry of Sports has declared the week commencing 25th -30th January 2016 as \"National Sports and Physical Fitness Promotion Week\".\r\n\r\nBased on that, Corps of Engineers organize sports and physical fitness programme on 28 Jan 2016. Programme commenced with 5 Km walk with the participation of 37 x Officers and 417 x ORs at RHQ SLE and followed by a cricket tournament at Sappers cricket ground at Mattegoda.\r\n\r\n13 x cricket teams including 5 x civil organizations and sports clubs participated in the cricket tournament. 1 Field Engineer Regiment team won the championship and Independent Workshop team became the runners up. Trophy for the Man of the Series was awarded to S/246866 Spr Malan RPS from Independent Workshop team and Trophy for the Man of the Match(Final) was awarded to S/242110 L/Cpl Puhpakumara AM from 1 SLE team.\r\n\r\nChief Field Engineer, Brigadier G D I Karunarathne RSP psc graced the ceremony as the Chief Guest and the Centre Commandant SLE presented certificates for the civil organizations and sports clubs for the appreciation of their participation.\r\n
