The All India Civil Services Basketball Championship is being organised in the city. Organised by Department of Sports and Youth Welfare the championship will be held at TT Nagar Stadium from November 12 to 16.
It is to be noted that as many as 500 players and officials from around 30 cities of the country will participate in the All India Civil Services Basketball Championship.
The Director of Sports and Youth Welfare Upendra Jain has given the necessary guidelines to the concerned officials. He asked the officials to keep a check on the facilities provided to the players. It is notable that the All India Civil Services Basketball Championship is being organized for the first time in the city of lakes by Sports and Youth Welfare Department.
The championship will be played at TT Nagar Stadium’s basketball court from 8 am till 9 pm. Besides, the participant teams have already started their journey to Bhopal and will reach by Saturday evening. Players from Ahmadabad, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Hyderabad, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are participating in the championship.
Moreover, the players of the Madhya Pradesh team have been selected by the state government for the All India Civil Services Basketball Championship. The team will be playing under the training of Coach A Suresh and the team’s manager will be Pramod Awasthi.
The players include Sanjay Patil, K. Abbas, Avtar Singh, Damodar Prasad Arya, Michael Anthony, Pawan Mishra, Sunil Dosanjh, Anil Kumar Pandey, Ajay Ghosre, Kamal Baria, Nishikant Thakre, Sanjay Shrivastav and additional players Shashank Shukla, Shashi Mohan Sinha, Hemant Singh Rawat, Ashok Kumar Tiwari and Amit Tiwari.