ganesh karthikayen - Petanque player in India

New Petanque Association-of Puducherry (Reg 336/2011) is the oldest association in india and it has been created in order to spread the game whole over india.

Petanque was first introduced in India in Pondicherry only bye the french people because Puducherry was ruled by the French for over 100 years . In Puducherry(Pondicherry) we are playing this game more than 100 years , we had known about this game very well in our state we have more than 2000+ well trained players they are eager to get chance to play in National and international level games.

Our Association represents world class player who are the true champions performed at state and also National level. The New Petanque Association Puducherry has more than 39 number of clubs are functioning and they all are bind them in our Association.

The management of Petanque formed during the French regime Puducherry in view of Tournaments, we organised the Tournaments various places in Puducherry for the last 60 years.

Each and every year the clubs binded with NPAP conducting minimum 15 tournaments in order to develop this game.

NPAP conducted 9 state level tournament, every tournament minimum 250 teams are participated ,more than 1500 players and 2000 plus visitors are visited the tournament.

Pondicherry government giving lot of support to us in order to develop this game because this is mingled with our culture.