CHANDIGARH: Shooters from Chandigarh NCC Directorate returned to the city after reaping a rich haul of 10 Medals at the 53rd National Shooting Championship which concluded at Jalandhar. 

Total medal tally is 03 Gold, 03 Silver and 04 Bronze Medals.

Cadet Shikha Dhall of Khalsa College, Sector-26 bagged the individual Gold Medal by securing 588 points out of 600 in .22 Prone category. She also bagged 01 Gold, 01 Silver and 01 Bronze medals in team events.  Cadet Shivendu Sharma of DAV College, Sector-10 bagged Individual Silver in 50m Free Pistol category and Team Gold in the same category.  Two Gold Medals were won by the Junior Women team in .22 Peep Sight Prone category and Junior Men team in 50m.

Brig Rajendra Singh, Sena Medal, Deputy Director General NCC Directorate Chandigarh congratulated the team for their excellent performance and exhorted them to continue their good work for the forthcoming National Games and trials for Commonwealth Games. 

Col Dharmender Gupta, Shaurya Chakra, Group Commander Chandigarh NCC said that the good results achieved by the team are due to the hardwork put in by the cadets and the focused dedication shown by them.  Col Amardeep Singh Bhatia, Commanding Officer said that in this team there were cadets who took up shooting as a sport in June this year and in such a short time have achieved such a good performance at National level. 

He particularly mentioned one cadet Sarita of Government  College, Sector-42, Chandigarh who took up .22 Peep Sight rifle only in August this year and has scored 584 out of 600 in National Shooting Championship and was placed 4th in Junior women category.

NCC Chandigarh Directorate is supporting the cadets by providing them with weapons, ammunition and administrative support.  Last year three cadets namely Cadet Hema KC, Cadet Shikha Dhall and Cadet Meera represented India in various tournaments held at Islamabad, West Germany and Czechoslovakia.