Mahilpur- Village Panchayat, Sports Club Bharata Ganeshpur, NRI heroes and youth organized a rural football tournament in joint venture. Renowned football teams of the area participated in this week-long football tournament.
Saint Santokh Das blessed the players and admonished them to play with sportsmanship l The moderator, young literary man Jagjit Singh Ganeshpur and anchor Sonu Bharata (Sanjiv Kumar) made the glimpses of the tournament reach the whole world. . The fast-paced team of Sarhala Khurd won the Sant Baba Mahan Das trophy by beating the team of Sarhala Kalan with penalty kicks. The competition of small children was won by the village Bharata Ganeshpur by defeating the team of Mahilpur.

Punjab Vidhan Sabha Deputy Speaker Jai Krishan Singh Rowdy, who arrived as the chief guest on this occasion, congratulated the players and presented a check of 5 lakh rupees for the development of the village.
  Inderjit Singh, former sarpanch Kulwinder Singh, children's literature writer Baljinder Mann, Dr. Balwinder Singh joined the presidency.
           An excellent cultural program was presented by the students of the government middle and primary schools of the village. The student artists were also given a prize of Rs. Beant Kaur and Ranjit Kaur etc were present l