Team Dev Pashakot Adventure won Accuracy Paragliding Pre-World Cup 2023

Dharamsala, April 9, 2023: In the team category of the Accuracy Paragliding Pre-World Cup, Team Dev Pashakot Adventure took first place by securing 1051 points, with Team Caro Nepal coming in second place with 652 points and another team of Nepal, Team Nepal earning third place by securing 586 points.

Meanwhile in the Indian National Open category, Sohan Thakur placed first with 76 ponts, followed by Kumar with 61 points  and Chitra Singh secured 3rd position with 50 points. In the women category, Aditi Thakur earned the top spot with 2873 p0ints, followed by  Rita Shreshtha 2089 points  and Alisha Katoch 1438points . In the overall competition, Chitra Singh took first place, Bishal Thapa second and Aman Thapa third place.

Accuracy Paragliding Pre-World Cup 2023 was organized from 5th to 9th April at Bir Billing of Kangra district of Himachal.

While presiding over the closing ceremony of Accuracy Paragliding Pre-World Cup at Bir of Kangra district, Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that Bir-Billing is  the world's best site for paragliding, which has gained international recognition. He said that Bir would be promoted from the point of view of tourism and a proposal would be prepared soon and to facilitate better organization of paragliding competitions, land would be acquired around the landing site.

The Chief Minister said that the state government would consider organizing a carnival in Bir, in order to promote tourism. Along with this, he announced to upgrade Police Chowki Bir to Police Station and said that in future Polytechnic College would be opened in Baijnath, in which new technical courses would be introduced. He said that soon the state government would announce to make Kangra the tourism capital, for which the complete blueprint was being prepared. The gaggal airport  of Dharamsala is  being expanded to promote tourism in Kangra, he added.

He said that in order to improve the environment of Himachal Pradesh, a provision has been made in the budget to give 50 percent subsidy on the purchase of e-trucks, e-buses and e-taxi.

The Chief Minister congratulated the Billing Paragliding Association for organizing the event.

Later, the Chief Minister presented cash prizes to all the winners. Total 103 pilots from 5 countries participated in the competition.

On the occasion, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Ashish Butail, MLA Yadvinder Goma, Chairman HP Agriculture Development Bank Sanjay Chauhan, former MLA Ajay Mahajan, Deputy Commissioner Kangra Dr. Nipun Jindal, Deputy Commissioner Mandi Arindam Choudhary, other senior leaders of the party and dignitaries were present amongst others.