Archive · 13 Jan 2026
SAAP Launches First-Ever Sports Calendar
The Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP) launched its first-ever sports calendar on National Youth Day.
This calendar will help athletes plan their training by providing information about sports events and programs happening each month.
The SAAP Chairman also announced special sports months in July and August and a program to celebrate traditional sports during Sankranti.
The goal is to support young athletes and bring back old sports that are not played much anymore.
SAAP launched its first-ever sports calendar on National Youth Day at Sri Srinivasa Sports Complex in Tirupati.
The calendar provides athletes with advance information about sports competitions, training camps, and development programs.
SAAP Chairman Animini Ravi Naidu announced sports awareness programs in every district and support for talented athletes.
July and August have been declared as full-fledged 'Sports Months' across the state.
The 'Sankranti Sambaralu – Traditional Celebrations through Sports' program was inaugurated to revive traditional rural games.
- Who
- Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP) and SAAP Chairman Animini Ravi Naidu
- What
- Launch of the first-ever sports calendar and inauguration of 'Sankranti Sambaralu – Traditional Celebrations through Sports' programme
- When
- Monday (National Youth Day)
- Where
- Sri Srinivasa Sports Complex, Tirupati
- Why
- To provide athletes with advance information about sports competitions, training camps, and sports development programmes, and to revive traditional rural games
- Organization
- Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP)
- Event
- Launch of first-ever sports calendar
- Location
- Sri Srinivasa Sports Complex, Tirupati
- Date
- Monday (National Youth Day)
- Key Initiatives
- Sports awareness programmes, identification of talented athletes, declaration of July and August as 'Sports Months'
- Programme Inaugurated
- 'Sankranti Sambaralu – Traditional Celebrations through Sports'