 In the 1960s and 1970s the JIPMER Students Association conducted an inter-collegiate sporting festival that included the Dr.S.S.Chaddha Memorial Hockey tournament and the Dr.S.L.Basu Memorial Football tournament.In 1978, the inter-collegiate sporting festival became Les Jeux and included basketball and badminton in addition to hockey and football.In 1980, cultural and literary events were added to the sporting events and were named Les Beaux Arts.