Govt apathy forced Pramila to quit rowing
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s rowers Pratima Puhana and Pramila Prava Minz made history and made the nation and State proud by bagging the bronze medal in the women’s 2,000-metre coxless pair event in the 16th Asian Games at Guangzhou in China, by clocking seven minutes and 47.50 seconds. In one end Pratima received various awards by corporate as well as by the Sports and Youth Services Department. Pratima also got a Government job. One should not forget the contribution of Pramila both won the bronze medal because of their team effort. The duo found a place in the record books after becoming the first women’s pair from the country to clinch a bronze medal in the rowing event. But no one from the State Government ever inquired about Pramila Prava Minz, whether she is in the sports or quit the sports. “Both are talented players. I am proud of them both bagged many medals for our State as well as for our country in coxless pair event. Now Pramila is staying with her parents at Sundargarh,” said coach Jose Jacob.
Pratima meet Sports Minister
Bhubaneswar: Asian rowing medalists Pratima Puhan meet Sports and Youth Services Minister Sudam Marandi here on Friday in the context of getting a job in the State. Pratima who presently working as constable in CRPF at Chandigarh, requested the Minister to arrange a Government job to continue her sporting career in the State. As per the recruitment policy one percentage is reserved for the sportsperson. When the interview has been conducted in our State many sportspersons got the job through sports quota, said Marandi. “At present, we are not having any policy to award job to the sportsperson on the basis of their performance, but in future we will find some ways how to provide jobs to our achievers. Pratima is a well reputed international player, we will request the authority to transfer her job to Odisha,” added Marandi. “More than one decade I have represented my State in various national and international events. I am hopeful that the State Government will arrange some alternatives so that I can participate from my State in future,”
said Pratima .
AICF felicitates Padmini Rout
Bhubaneswar: All India Chess Federation (AICF) on Friday at Chennai felicitated individual women’s gold winner WGM Padmini Rout and the Indian men’s team, which won a historic bronze in the Chess Olympiad held in Tromso (Norway) recently. “It was a great experience,” said 20-year-old Padmini. “It was my first Olympiad. It had all the top players and was a very strong tournament. The team spirit was good, and the coaches ensured that the players co-ordinated well.” The men team, comprising Grandmasters Parimarjan Negi, S.P. Sethuraman, M.R. lalith Babu, K. Sasikiran and B. Adhiban and coached by Grandmaster R.B. Ramesh, finished with 17 match points, tied with Hungary, Russia and Azerbaijan and was awarded the bronze for having a superior tie-break score. Chief Guest N Srinivasan said an Olympiad medal is no small achievement. Ultimately the results count. You have delivered. Then he awarded the players with a shawl, a commemorative plaque and Rs.3 lakhs each. The coach R.B. Ramesh received Rs.1.50 lakhs and Padmini Rout, the gold medal winner on the Women’s Olympiad board five received Rs.60,000.
Odisha bags 6 medals in All India Postal meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha postal team bagged one gold, three silver, two bronze and total of six medals in the 29th All India Postal Athletic and Cycling meet 2014-15 held at Gandhinagar in Gujarat from September 1 to 3. Malya Ranjan Pati grabbed the gold medal in the hammer throw event by throwing 44.35 meter. While, Budhuram Singh received silver medal in the long jump and bronze medal in the triple jump event by jumping 6.54 meter and 13.00 meter respectively. In the 400 meter hurdles event, Gopinath Mohanty claimed bronze medal by clocking 1min.05sec. Budhuram Singh, Gopinath Mohanty, Dillip Kumar Rout and Kanhu Charan Mirdha bagged silver and bronze medals in the 4X100 and 4X400 meter relay events respectively by clocking 46.50 seconds and 3min.58sec. Malay Ranjan Pati, Budhuram Singh, Gopinath Mohanty ,Dillip Kumar Rout, Debananda Putel, Padamlochan Behera, Kanhu Charan Mirdha were the seven athletes of the Odisha Postal participated in the meet.
GGP, Kalinga match end in draw
Bhubaneswar: The league match between GGP Football Club and Kalinga Sporting ended in 2-2 goal draw in the 11th Gati Krushna Memorial Div-B Football league at Unit-1 High School Play Ground here on Friday. GGP Club dominated the first half, Jyoti Mishra and Madan Sikhu netted a goal each in the 18th and 33rd minutes respectively and the team closed the first half with 2-0 lead. After the change of sides, Kalinga Sporting bounced back in style, Bikash Majhi and Gouranga Nayak scored a goal each in the 53rd and 60th minutes respectively and the match ended in 2-2 goals draw. Suphal Roy, Durga Acharya, Chandrakanta Barik and Manoj Soren were the officials who conducted the match. In the league match on Saturday, Rayal Physical Association would meet Tech Mahindra.