Lucknow to host Asian T-T

The last edition of the championship was held in China in 2007. India successfully hosted this event twice— in 1980 at Kolkata and in 1992 at New Delhi. This will be the third occasion when India will be hosting the event.

About 380 participants in all are expected to take part in the championships.

Prabhat,Arun re-elected
Prabhat C Chaturvedi (IAS) and Arun Kumar Banerjee,have been unanimously re-elected as president and honorary secretary,respectively,of the Uttar Pradesh Table Tennis Association (UPTTA) for a four year term— from 2009 to 2013 in the Annual General Meeting of UPTTA held at Lucknow. Prabhat C Chaturvedi and Arun Kumar Banerjee are presently also the vice president and joint secretary,respectively,in the Table Tennis Federation of India.

The other office-bearers are: Vice presidents: RN Banerji,Lalit Kishore,G Misra,SK Dey,Rakesh Kohli,VP Shukla; Joint secretaries: Sanjay Munshi,Yogendra Gautam,BK Singh,Deependra Kamthan; Treasurer: NK Lahiry; Executive committee members: Niaz Ahmed,Praveen Gupta,Shyam Ji Gaur,Chandra Shekhar Sharma,Kamal Chawla,Deepak Verma,Alka Sharma,Sarvesh Kumar,Sanjeev Pathak,Rajesh Singh,Love Garg,Vinod Pandey; Advisor:Vivek Kohli ‘Stag’ (Meerut);

Sub committees:-Selection committee: Chairman: SK Dey; Members: Sanjeev Kapoor,Sanjeev Pathak,Atul Bhargava,Sarita Gokarn (all former state players); Technical and classification committee: Chairman: NK Lahiry; Members: PK Jain,Manoj Bose (all international umpires); Development committee: Chairman: Yogesh Agarwal; Members: Gopal Bhargava,Ashok Pandey,Nirmoy Mitra,Ashutosh Dixit,Ajit Kumar Singh;Coaching Committee: Members: Sunil Joshi,JS Bist,Vijay Singh,Dhirendra Kumar,Vishal Tiwari and Ashok Kumar (all NIS); Women’s Development Committee: Geeta Kapoor,Anju Gupta Shankar,Sarita Gokarn,Alka Sharma.

Proposed state tournament calendar for 2009-2010:-

July: 24th Mini Junior State Championship ‘UP Cup’ (Agra); August: 1st State Ranking Tournament (Bareilly); September: 2nd State Ranking Tournament (Etawah); October: 3rd State Ranking Tournament (Kanpur);

Sept: Inter District/ Unit Zonal Tournaments:- 1.Meerut-Agra-Aligarh-Mathura Zone (Meerut); 2. Lucknow-Faizabad-Sultanpur Zone (Sultanpur); 3. Allahabad-Kanpur-Jhansi Zone (Jhansi); 4.Varanasi-Gorakhpur-Sonebhadra Zone (Renukoot); 5. Moradabad-Bareilly-Saharanpur (Muzaffarnagar) Muzaffarnagar-Bijnor Zone;

October: 56th ‘Stag’ UP State & Inter Zonal Championship (at Allahabad); National revised tournament calendar for 2009:- Inter-institutional Championships (Gangtok; Aug 24-28);National Ranking Championships for Central Zone,Gandhidham (Gujarat; Oct 1-5);National Ranking Championships for East Zone (Siliguri; Nov 7-11); National Ranking Championships for North Zone (J&K);National Ranking Championships for South Zone (Karnataka); National Ranking Championships for West Zone (Maharashtra); 71st Sub-junior & Cadet National Championships (Chennai); 71st Junior & Youth National Championships (Raipur; Chhattisgarh); 71st Senior National Championships (Assam).

Review meet
A review meet of the sports department was organised at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium,Lucknow on Monday. According to AK Banoda,Deputy Director Sports (UP),during the meet a review of the training camps and tournaments in various sports was done. The sports officials were asked to ensure that all construction work gets completed within the set time limit for each work. Discussions were also done on how the ‘Khel Kood Protsahan Samiti’ could generate income for sports development.