District Associations support VHA

 

 

 Hockey Mah secy Manoj Bhore forcing them to part ways with VHA, allege secretaries

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I am following HI guidelines: Bhore

HOCKEY Maharashtra Secretary Manoj Bhore said he is only following the guidelines of Hockey India and has nothing to do with VHA politics. Speaking to ‘The Hitavada’ from Pune Bhore said, “I am only following the rules laid down by Hockey India. It is not Hockey Maharashtra but Hockey India that disaffiliated Vidarbha Hockey Association.
“I want all the players of State to be benifitted. Hockey India wants all the players to get registered. With court cases going on, players of Vidarbha will be deprived of participating in selection trials and playing nationals. Hence I asked all the district associations to get their players registered with Hockey Maharashtra,” explained Bhore.
“Let the court decide about the future of Vidarbha Hockey Association. But till then the players should not suffer,” he added.
Bhore also said that district bodies are burdened with more work than the State bodies now.
“The district associations will now have to  work much harder. They will have to submit their annual report of work done in development of hockey in their region.
“Reports of all the tournaments conducted, seminars held, umpires clinics organised will have to be reported to the State association,” he said. “It will not be easy to run a district association,” he mentioned.

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Jain revives Nag District Unified HA, approaches Hockey Mah for affiliation

Principal Correspondent

PRAMOD Jain, joint secretary of Vidarbha Hockey Association (VHA) has “revived” The Nagpur District Unified Hockey Assocaition (NDUHA) and has approached Hockey Maharashtra for affiliation.
Sensing opportunity after Hockey India disaffiliated VHA citing one-state-one-unit criteria, Jain, who also claimed to be the secretary of VHA after the executive committee “suspended” VHA President BC Bhartia and Secterary Vinod Gawai a couple of years ago, quitely revived NDUHA which was earlier controlled by TN Sidhra, now VHA Administrator.
Later, Mamta Trivedi was made its president and Salim Baig was the secretary. But the body (NDUHA) was always on papers. During the Kehar Singh’s (Mumbai) regime in Hockey Maharashtra, NDUHA had got affiliation with Maharashtra body but that is still challenged by Bhore’s present body as they were ousted when the present body took over.
According to the request letter submitted to Hockey Maharashtra in July, body is headed by Shoeb Pervez (President), Jain as Secretary and Anil Daral as its Treasurer. Dr Shams Khan late Arif Khan, Mamta Trivedi Noel Joseph and Sunil Madne are Vice-Presidents while Parvez Qureshi is the Joint Secretary.  The committee members include late Dharamraj Kanojiya, Kunal Patil, Javed Rana, Ramesh Mandal, Nandini Shripetwar, Nalini Khandelwar, Devesh Swami and Rakesh Rana.
“Yes we have applied for affiliation with Hockey Maharashtra. VHA has been disaffiliated by Hockey India. Players of our region would suffer significantly. Hence we decided to revive NDUHA which is a registered body since 2007,” said Jain.
On allegations that he is insisting other district associations to join Hockey Mahrashtra, Jain said, “I never talked with anybody from any other district. Yes, Manoj Bhore (Maharashtra secretary) asked me for numbers of district associations which were registered with VHA then (before TN Sidhra was appointed Administrator)
and I passed those names,” clarified Jain.

 

 

Sai selected for AITA’s high performance training camp

 

 

By Paritosh Pramanik

Sai Rajesh Bhoyar, a talented tennis prodigy from Nagpur, has been selected for High Performance Training Camp (HPTC) for U-18 girls organised by All India Tennis Association (AITA). The camp is being held in association with Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) and Sports Authority of India (SAI) in New Delhi from February 2.
The camp will be held at at RK Khanna Tennis Stadium.
AITA has selected top 17 girls from all over India based upon their past performances and National Rankings.
Sai, like other players, lost most opportunities in 2020 due to COVID-19 lockdown. She finished 2020 at sixth spot in All India National Rankings in U-16 category.  After winning a bronze medal in Khelo India Youth Games at Gawahati in January 2020, Sai had to wait nearly for a year to step in for some serious tennis activity.
“AITA are endeavouring to bring life back into tennis, through a noble and player friendly project styled - “Roadmap for return to Tennis - Core players” and setting up High Performance Training Camps (HPTC) for elite junior players at RK Khanna Tennis Stadium, New Delhi,” informed Sai’s father Rajesh Bhoyar.
“The aim of this project is to mark the return to tennis of Indian players and to prepare for competitive tennis. The project will have a 16-19 days high-performance camp with prime focus on physical conditioning, providing opportunity to play against and with best players and providing high intensity of an in built tournament. This will prepare Indian players for international tournaments which have now started slowly and steadily,” he added.
Director of the entire HPTC project will be Zeeshan Ali, who is also the national coach.
Zeeshan, a former Indian Davis Cup player who also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, will be incharge of the training camp
“He will be designing the flow of HPTC in each group, with focus on core objective of development of the players. A team of well experienced physical fitness trainers will assist with the camp. A detailed performance evaluation of each and every player will be done and reported back to AITA and players within 10 days of camp being over.
During the last week, AITA will also conduct an invitational championship for the players of the camp.
Sai will have to stay in the bio-bubble at RK Khanna Tennis Stadium and will have to follow all Standard Operating Procedures.

NDFA’s leagues to start in Feb

 Matches will be held at newly-constructed Bharat Ratna Dr BR Ambedkar Stadium in Suyog Nagar

 

 

 Principal Correspondent

FINALLY there will be some football action in the city.
After a couple of futsal meets organised by different organisations, The Nagpur District Football Association (NDFA) has decided to kick-start the season with pending leagues of 2019 which were abruptly halted due to coronavirus.
The COVID-19 pandemic had stopped all the sporting activities in March, 2020. After getting green signal from the authorities, NDFA will be resuming the competitions at their newly-constructed Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Football Stadium in Suyog Nagar.
The association had planned to start the leagues in the month of May when Maharashtra Government had removed Nagpur from ‘Red Zone’.
But with coronavirus cases on the rise, authorities had denied permission to any kind of sporting activities in the State.
Later in September with the ease in restrictions, and phase wise unlocking of the State hopes rekindle but sporting bodies still had to wait further. A couple of months later, the government permitted outdoor activities as well as training and practice, but not actual competitions.
However, the long wait was finally over when a few days ago, government allowed associations to hold competitions and seminars.
The NDFA immediately decided to conduct its pending leagues of last season. The Senior and First Division Leagues will be held in the month of February at the lush green ground.
The Senior Division comprise 23 teams. They are Veer FC, Hansraj, Gauhar FC, Nagpur Star, Mavrick FC, Birsa Munda, Eagle B, Bezonbagh, Yuva FC, Green Flag, Young Boys, Ansari, Al Fateh, Rahul Academy, Young Ansar, Shakti, Mecosabagh, Big Ben, Bhankheda, Al Aziz.
The First Division teams are: Uday Sporting, Amma FC, Young Haider, Maverick, Orange City, Ansari, Yuva FC, Sportian and Deputy Director of Sports and Youth Services (DDSYS).
The association has asked clubs to complete formalities at the NDFA’s Suyog Nagar office from 5 pm to, 7 pm.
Details can be obtained from NDFA Secretary Iqbal Kashmiri.