Beware of thief if you are booking Kalinga Stadium!
Bhubaneswar: Beware if you are booking dormitories, guest rooms and staying in the hostels in the Kalinga Sports Complex has become a target of miscreants with frequent cases of theft of mobiles and other valuables. The recent incident took place on Tuesday miscreants allegedly broke through a dormitory occupied by Sports Authority of India (SAI) East Zone hockey team and looted cell phones and cash besides taking away other documents.
Believe or not such incident would definitely dent the image of the state and the stadium which is one among the most sough destinations in the State for national tournaments.
“We have a team of 18 members and were staying at the dormitory of the stadium. On Tuesday morning we were in the match and when we returned to our dormitory we found the lock of the room broken. We were also shocked to find around 3 mobile phones and cash worth Rs 10,000 missing from our room,” alleged Jharkhand hockey player.
Sources said that the miscreants most often target dormitories occupied by players outside the State. The sports complex built in an area of 60 acres is a multipurpose stadium with facilities for hockey, football, swimming, tennis, basketball and athletics. The stadium hosts a number of tournaments of State and national level.
Stadium authorities blame it on the inadequacy of security guards in the stadium premises for such incidents. “We have around 20 security guards for the vast area. Majority of them are deployed at the 10 entry and exit gates in the sports complex. Besides there is no restriction on entry of outsiders in to the stadium as it is a public property,” said a stadium official.
Earlier in this month miscreants allegedly broke through a dormitory occupied by Under 19 Rugby team of Kerala and looted around 10 cell phones and cash worth Rs 25000 besides taking away other documents.
Sources in the stadium said that this is the seventh such incident in the stadium in last three months. Earlier miscreants had committed theft of mobile phones and other valuables from the hostel of College of Physical Education a fortnight ago.
State-level school Kabaddi competition begins
Jagatsinghpur: The state level school Kabaddi competition was inaugurated at Naba Krushna Choudhury Stadium here on Monday evening, Cooperative and Excise minister Damodar Rout inaugurated the competition accompanied by MlAs Rajashree Mallick, Prasanta Muduli and Chiranjeev Biswal, MP Jagatsinghpur Kulamani Samal, Zilla Parishad president D D Mohanty, Municipality chairman Biplav Choudhury, board of secondary education, Odisha assistant Director Pravha Kar Mangaraj.
District collector chaired the inauguration meeting and district education officer Krushna Chandra Nayak read the inaugural speech. Addressing the occasion speakers stressed giving importance to the Kabadi play in school and college level and equal weight age to the Kabaddi like some other popular games prevailing in country.
According to the organisers source said that as many as 744 boys and girls from 31 education districts across the State have participated in this state level competition, 62 play teachers and coaches have added to supervise the event which would conclude on October 2.
Ekamra thrash Regional in Gati Krushna Football
Bhubaneswar: Suresh Kumar Samal of Ekamra Sporting Club netted double goals and powered the team to beat Regional Football Club by 4-1 goals in the group-D league match of the 12th Gati Krushna Memorial Div-II Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Tuesday, being organized by Bhubaneswar Athletic Association.
Ekamra Sporting Club dominated the match from the beginning, Suresh scored double goals in the 11th and 27th minutes respectively. After the chang of sides, Shahanwaz Khan and Amulya Kumar Jena scored a goal each in the 47th and 70th minutes respectively. Th Menan Singh of the Regional Football Club scored the solitary goal in the 41st minutes.
Chandrakanta Barik, Sekhawat Khan, Chitrambada Patra and Pradeep Kumar Nayak were conducted the match. Chandrashekharpur Athletic Association would meet City Club Nayapalli in the league round match on Wednesday.
