In a bid to search hidden talents from remote areas and villages the Jharkhand Sports Department, on Tuesday, started selection for the players for the fourth phase of Khel Mahakumbh in 12 districts of the State to provide training to the players of village and block level at the governments training academy situated at Khel Gaon near the State capital.
Deputy Director Sports Department, Sandip Doraiburu said, “The department had instructed the nodal officers of the districts to start trial on ‘panchayat’ level on January 28 and 29.
The players will be selected from Garhwa, Koderma, West and East Singhbhoom, Saraikela and Kharsanwa, Gumla, Lohardagga, Simdega, Khunti, Sahebganj, Pakur and Jamatada.
The players will be selected under the age group of 8 years to 12 years. The remaining players from 12 districts will be selected by the same programme by Central Coalfield Limited.”
Informing the details of the selection process Doraiburu said, “First of all selection process will be completed on ‘panchayat’ level with target of 20 to 30 players.
After that out of selected players from the panchayat level ‘block’ level selection trail will be conducted with target of 30 boys and 30 girls.
Out of selected players from the end of the block level trail basis the district level trail will be conducted with target of 40 boys and 40 girls.
At the end of the trail basis out of total selected players from the panchayat level to district level a total of 125 players will be selected out of around 950 players.”
“Every school was informed about the trail programme, and online registration was going on. The new batch will be started on June 1.
There is no reservation provision in the trail programme and on the basis of around 95 per cent of total players of the academy comes from SC, ST and OBC classes.
A numbers of State and National players came to light after the initiative of the government” he added.
Informing about the trial Sports Advisor, Sports Department Devendra Kumar Singh said, this is battery test for the children to check their endurance, flexibility, fastness and body mass index.