The 18-member Chhattisgarh Handball Sub-junior Boys team on Friday left for Indore (Madhya Pradesh) to take part in 31st Sub-Junior Boys National Handball Championship.
Under the aegis of Handball Federation of India, Madhya Pradesh Handball Association is organizing the Championship from September 14 to 19, 2014.Before leaving for the national championship by Chhattisgarh Express, the State team went through a 12- day special training camp organized at Handball Complex, Sector-4 Bhilai from September 1 to 12, 2014.The president of Chhattisgarh Handball Association (CHA) and Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) in Chhattisgarh, Dr Rajesh Mishra (IPS) marked his presence on concluding ceremony of the training camp.
The Chhattisgarh team members include Sachin, lokesh (both from National Handball Academy), Tomesh Kumar Sahu, Aaqil Ahmed, Devendra Sahu (trio from Raipur), Anaradan Singh, Naiman Toppo, Ankit Gupta, Vishal Vishwakrma, Akash Chaudhary (all from Surguja), Aditya Kharsan, Anand Nirmalkar (both from Kabirdham), Ganesh Kumar Dhurv, Deepak Kumar Bhagat (both from Korba), Jayesh Vaishnav (Mungeli), D Naveen, Mohammad Yusuf (coach) and BD Karupati (manager) (trio from BSP).
Apart from bearing travelling expense of the team, Chhattisgarh Sports and Youth Welfare Department provided track suit, accommodation and training allowance to the team while ‘NMDC Handball Protsahan Rashi Samiti’ gave away playing kit, shoes, socks and pocketing allowance to the team’s players, coaches and manager.