Jamshedpur, Dec 06: The 13th National Athletic Championship of the deaf will commence at the J R D Tata Sports Complex here from today. Over 400 athletes and officials from 22 states and Union Territories are likely to participate in the championship, to be organised by the Tata Steel, according to the chairman of the organising committee, Satish Pillai, who is also the chief of the Tata Football Academy and sports, Tata Steel, here today.

Sixty-two events in athletics will be conducted in six groups (men, women, junior boys, junior girls and sub-junior boys girls), he said. Bureau Report