Excelsior Sports Correspondent
KATRA, June 12: A 3-day Senior National Level Archery Championship for Men and Women will be held at the Shrine Board’s Sports Complex at Katra in November this year. As many as 300 archers from across the country will participate in this mega event. Para Archery National Championship will also be held along with this tournament.
This was decided at the 3rd meeting of the Governing Council of the Shrine Board’s Sports Complex held at Spiritual Growth Centre here.
Dr Ashok Bhan, Member of the Shrine Board and Chairman of the Governing Council of the Sports Complex, chaired the meeting. which was attended by Ajeet Kumar Sahu, Chief Executive Officer and Anshul Garg, Additional CEO of the Board; prominent sportspersons Sanjeeva Singh, former International Archer (Arjuna/Dronacharya Awardee); and Samaresh Jung, International Shooter (Arjuna Awardee); besides Ashok Kumar, Director Sports of the Shrine Board, all of whom are members of the Governing Council, participated in the deliberations. Ranjit Kalra, Member, J&K State Sports Council, attended the meeting as Special Invitee. Dr. Arvind Karwani, Deputy CEO of the Shrine Board was also present.
The Governing Council discussed modalities for creating centres of excellence in some of the identified sports and progressively developing Shrine Board’s Sports Complex on the pattern of Sports Academy to secure desired results. These centres of excellence will be created in sports and games having very high potential to fetch medals at the state, national and international level competitions. Accordingly, the Governing Council identified four disciplines of Archery, Shooting, Athletics (long distance run and throws) and Basketball which will be the areas of intensive focus as of now and wherever required infrastructure and other logistics will be further strengthened to go whole-hog to produce top sportspersons in these sports.
Relevant to recall that Governor NN Vohra, Chairman of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, has directed the CEO for organising major events in identified sports and games at the Shrine Board’s Sports Complex at Katra during current fiscal and develop it as a hub of sports activities and coaching facilities for the benefit of youth and the society at large.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Bhan said that coaching is an important area which needs maximum focus, along with talent hunt and preparing and updating data base of children participating in various events held at the Sports Complex to tailor the strategies accordingly for maximising results.
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