Veteran hockey player Samurai Tete will be brand ambassador of Hockey in Jharkhand. She will also be given responsibility of training State level players, said CM Raghubar Das while felicitating the Dhyan Chand Award for lifetime Achievement 2016 nominee. Tete has given her nod to the proposal.
The CM also gave instruction to the Sports Secretary and Sports Director to give special focus in Simdega, Gumla, Khunti, lohardaga for hockey and all six districts for football in Santhal Pargana and also Kolhan districts for archery. Das said that development of sports will be possible only when sportspersons get coaching professionally.
In another major decision Das said that people will pay only 10 rupees as fee of Pragya Kendra in place of Rs. 30 for caste, residential and income certificate. The remaining Rs. 20 will be reimbursed by the Central Govt. Das said that under the programme Sarkar Aapke Dwar, volunteers are moving from house to house to fill in forms of caste, residential and income certificates. He directed all the panchayat swayamsevaks to charge only Rs. as fee of Pragya Kendra. A promotional amount of Rs. 50 has been provisioned for swayamsevaks against each form.