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Gill inaugurates synthetic hockey surface at Sonepat
New Delhi, July 5, 2009
Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports M S Gill unveiling the plaque to inaugurate the newly laid Synthetic Hockey Surface, at Sports Authority of India (SAI), Northern Regional Centre, Bahalgarh, Sonepat, Haryana on Sunday.
Ms. Kiran Chaudhary, Haryana Minister for Tourism and Sports and Youth Affairs, was the Guest of Honour at the function.
The new hockey surface will be used during national coaching camps for training the country's elite hockey players as well as various trainees of SAI Training Centre, Sonepat.
In addition to the new surface, the SAI regional centre at Sonepat has two hostels with 180 beds capacity, one multi-purpose hall, wrestling, kabaddi and boxing facilities, techno-gym, sauna bath, a football field and volleyball and basketball courts, an official press release said.
The centre is currently imparting training to 1561 trainees of international and national level in its various facilities in places like Hissar, Bhiwani and Kurukshetra.
The centre is a training hub for holding national coaching camp of wrestling for men for the Commonwealth Games. Presently, 88 Commonwealth probables for wrestling in Greco-Roman and Freestyle are being trained in the centre.
The release said SAI was in the process of upgrading sports infrastructure and other facilities in its various training centres throughout the country. In the next one year, four synthetic hockey surfaces, five synthetic athletic tracks and three hostels with a total capacity of 250 beds will be ready for use at various SAI Centres.
In addition to this, SAI will also operationalise its training centre at Hazaribagh in Jharkhand with facilities for five disciplines.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports is implementing a special scheme for training of Commonwealth probables. Under the scheme , SAI is running 18 camps in all the disciplines of Commonwealth Games at Bangalore, Kolkata, Patiala, Hyderabad, Bhopal, Pune, Guwahati and Delhi. A total of 1180 probables for Commonwealth Games are being trained in these camps. Four additional camps for training of para sports persons in the disciplines of swimming, athletics, table tennis and power lifting will be starting shortly, the release added.
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