Chennai: With the motive to encourage the native sport of Tamilnadu – jallikattu – T R S Muthukumaar plans to host a Jallikattu Premier League (JPL) after formally launching the JPL trust.
In a press statement, he said, “Presently, we are awaiting approval of JPL and hoping to conduct the first edition in six months’ time. So far, we have been sponsoring the sporting event across the State.”
JPL aims to promote several objectives through the league:
* Encourage sports and cultural activities more specifically relating to bull-taming
* Encourage bulls for using as studs for increasing quality breeding
* Save the bulls from extinction
* Encourage the sport to infuse courage and strength in the minds of youth
* Encourage private sponsors to promote / undertake bull sports
* Encourage the sponsors to undertake schemes to be introduced in the field of cultural activity, education and social welfare
* Encourage competitions, workshops, seminars, conferences to achieve the objectives
* Create and maintain the necessary infrastructure
* Achieve national-level approval for the sport
* Conduct district / State / national-level bull sports regularly
* Create district-level medical amenities with emergency hospital service for bulls
* Recognise bull farmers & fighters at district- and State-level
* Encourage more JPL voluntary members at district- and State-level