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.