One thousand teams to participate in Sundargarh Rural Hockey Olympiad

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Rourkela: In an attempt to glean best of talents and popularise the national sport in the district, the Central Adivasi Club (CAC) here has decided to organize ‘Sundargarh Rural Hockey Olympiad’ in which nearly 1000 teams, men and women, are likely to compete for top honours.

Informing PBD about this mega rural hockey event, I Tirkey, President of CAC has said that former captain of Indian Hockey team, famous Olympian and Member of Rajya Sabha, Dilip Tirkey who chaired the preparatory meeting at NIT Guest House here recently will be the Chief Patron and Brahma Mishra, former Chairman of Steel Executive Federation of India and a former top executive of SAIL will be the Chairman of the organizing committee of the event.

The mega event will kick-start on January 26 and shall be culminated on March 5, the birth anniversary of Biju Patnaik, said Tirkey adding that preliminary matches will be played at eight zonal centres identified in the district. The selection of the teams will be done by knock-out match system method. Semi-final matches and the final will be played at the Biju Patnaik Hockey Stadium in Sector-5 of Rourkela, said Tirkey.

Elaborating on prize money, Tirkey informed that while the winners and runner up teams will get Rs. 50,000 and Rs. 30,000 respectively, prize money will also be given in other categories of individual excellence.

Famous Olympians, Michel Kindo, Ignes Tirkey, Lajarus Barla, Jyoti Sunita Kulu are among a host of other prominent hockey players from the district who have taken active interest in making the event a grand success, informed Brahma Mishra.

President of RSP Officers’ Association, Deepak Mishra, Dillip Behera, Ananta Prasad Ray, Abul Kalam Azad, Fr. Nicholas Barhla, Fr. Lazarus Lakra, Sunil Lingra, Peter Tirkey, R K Sahani, Suman Khuzur, S Topo, Md. Sultan Khan, Rajesh Khalko and M Kerketa were present in this preparatory meeting.
  

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