Archery Association of India R E P O R T of the Secretary
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ARCHERY ASSOCIATION OF INDIA R E P O R T OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL For the period 1st November, 2014 to 29 th February, 2016 DDA Yamuna Sports Complex, Gate No.2, Surajmal Vihar, Delhi-1100 92 Ph.:+91-11-22146057; Email Id: [email protected]; Website: www.indianarchery.info Dear Colleagues, It is a pleasure to welcome you all for the meeting. I present to you, my report on key activities of Archery Association of India during the period 1 st November 2014 to 29 th February 2016. Foremost, we congratulate Mr Vijay Kumar Malhotra on being appointed as President of the All India Council of Sports (Rank of Minister of State) Government of India. A feeling of pride and joy on one hand and some sadness on the other, as he had to resign as our President after years of resolve and dedicated service for the cause of Archery. We will miss him and wish to thank him for his leadership and guidance that has helped Indian Archery grow from its infancy to a position at the pinnacle of World Archery. We are now recognized all over the world as a force to reckon with in Archery. Our Archers in Recurve and Compound division, both men and women in the senior, junior and sub-junior categories are considered among the best. Our Coaches are being sought after by various countries, having seen the performance of our Archers. Our Judges have been recognized as being very competent and have been given assignments at major World events and have been bestowed with important responsibilities. Our Technical Officials and Events team have conducted tournaments which are world class and World Archery has appreciated the work done by India. All this has been made possible under the leadership and guidance of Mr Malhotra and due to the tremendous efforts put in by our Archery family. We will always look to him for guidance, and wish him the very best in his tenure as President of All India Council of Sports. As per our Constitution, in the absence of the President, the Senior Vice President will act for the President. Accordingly Mr Tarlochan Singh took over as the Acting President and I thank him for his guidance and help. We congratulate Ms Deepika Kumari on her name being announced for the ‘Padma Shree’ award by the Government of India. Her achievements as an Archer at this young age are phenomenal and we are sure that her performances in the years to come will make India proud. We wish her the very best. We congratulate Naib Subedar Sandeep Kumar, our Compound Archer, for being conferred the ‘Arjuna Award’ for his achievements. He is the 14 th Arjuna Awardee from the Archery discipline, and the 2 nd Compound Archer. National Child Awards were presented by the Hon President of India to 30 Children in different fields including the following five Archers for exceptional achievement, at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan in the presence of Union Minister for Women & Child Development. ::2:: 1) Suchitra Thourangbam (Manipur) - 14 years 2) Gora Ho (Jharkhand) - 14 years 3) K.Jyoshna (Andhra Pradesh) - 13 years 4) Anjali Kumari (Andhra Pradesh) - 10 years 5) Vijender Kumar (Haryana) - 14 years Congratulations and best wishes to all the Archers. I believe that these Awards will prove to be a source of encouragement and motivation for budding Archers of the country. I wish to thank all our Executive Members, especially our Treasurer and the Chairman, Conveners and Members of our various Committees who have always come forward and helped. I thank the Presidents, Secretaries and each one of you from our Member States / Units for your support at all times and I am confident that together, we will be able to achieve higher goals that we set ourselves. I convey my gratitude to the Technical Officials and Volunteers for the help extended in making all our sporting events and activities a success. My sincere thanks to our staff at the AAI office, who continue to put in hard work to cope with the ever increasing work load. We appreciate the support extended by TATA Sons and TATA Steels. However, due to certain matters affecting their industry, they were unable to continue to extend sponsorship support. We hope with a turn in fortunes of the industry, they will come back to support us. We wish them the very best. The Ministry of Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports, and the Sports Authority of India have provided us immense cooperation and support, without which we could not have achieved success. I thank the Indian Olympic Association for their guidance and help whenever required. I wish to thank the print and electronic media for giving our events and tournaments extensive coverage. The period under review has seen good progress due to dedicated work by Members of the Archery family. We have also had some anxious times when our Vice President Mr. K.S. Kang fell seriously ill, and our Treasurer Mr. Virender Sachdeva met with an accident. With their determination and by the grace of God they have recovered well and are back in our midst. We however had the sad demise of our colleague Mr. Rathin Datta, after a prolonged battle with cancer. He represented India as an Archer and then served Archery as an International Judge and as a Competition Manager at several International meets including the Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games. The AAI family pays homage to late Mr. Rathin Datta. ::3:: The Archery Association of India is at a crucial stage, when there is a need to take some important decisions that will help us move forward in the years to come. The following pages give a month-wise account of key activities during the period under review. November - 2014 Annual General Council Meeting The Annual General Council Meeting was held at Janpath Hotel, New Delhi on 8 th November, 2015. The minutes of the meeting have been circulated and are also herewith attached. TATA National Ranking Archery Tournament, Final at Delhi It was for the first time in the history of Indian sports that any sports event was organized in front of the historical monument – RED FORT, which brought immense publicity to the event and to Archery in India. The TATA NRAT Qualification Rounds were held at DDA Yamuna Sports Complex and the Final Medal Matches were staged on 9 th November, 2014 at Red Fort, Delhi. The grand success of NRAT which included Sub-Junior and Junior category for the first time, was made possible due to sponsorship support extended by TATA Steels and TATA Sons. For the first time a total of Rs.50 lakhs was allocated as Cash Award for NRAT, and around Rs.27 lakhs was given away at the end of the Finals to the winning Archers and their Coaches, by Archery Association of India:- Sub-Junior Recurve Boys Sub-Junior Recurve Girls Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 Kamal Kishor 40,000 1 Prachi Singh 40,000 2 Atul Verma 30,000 2 Manisha Hembram 30,000 3 Ranjit Naik 25,000 3 Th. Surmala Devi 25,000 4 Aditya Partap Singh 15,000 4 Sulekha Singh 15,000 Sub-Junior Compound Boys Sub-Junior Compound Girls Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 Tejraj Singh Rathore 40,000 1 Purvasha Shende 40,000 2 Dharmendra Sourat 30,000 2 K. Jyoshna 30,000 3 Subham Sethe 25,000 3 Sakshi Vedwan 25,000 4 Jagbinder 15,000 4 Diksha Chhillar 15,000 ::4:: Coaches of Sub-Junior Recurve Boys Coaches of Sub-Junior Recurve Girls Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 Mim Bahadur Gurung 20,000 1 Dr. P. Ravi Shankar 20,000 2 Rajesh Hasdak 10,000 2 Dharmendra Tiwary 10,000 Coaches of Sub-Junior Compound Boys Coaches of Sub-Junior Compound Girls Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 W. Ranjan Singh 20,000 1 Chandra Shekhar 20,000 2 Sunil Kumar 10,000 2 Prakash Ram 10,000 Junior Recurve Boys Junior Recurve Girls Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 Binod Swansi 60,000 1 Madhu Vedwan 60,000 2 Bhagwat Singh 50,000 2 Archana Sharma 50,000 3 Indrachand Swami 35,000 3 Bhagyashri Kolte 35,000 4 N. Jemson Singh 20,000 4 Asha Rani Horo 20,000 Junior Compound Boys Junior Compound Girls Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 Rajat Chauhan 60,000 1 Madhumita Kumari 60,000 2 Ch. Jignas 50,000 2 Purvasha Shende 50,000 3 Ramakanta Sharma 35,000 3 Anu Tiwary 35,000 4 Ritul Chatterjee 20,000 4 P.Geethika Lakshmi 20,000 Coaches of Junior Recurve Boys Coaches of Junior Recurve Girls Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 S.C. Roy 30,000 1 Rajendra Guiya 30,000 2 Rajesh Hasdak 15,000 2 P. Ravi Shankar 15,000 Coaches of Junior Compound Boys Coaches of Junior Compound Girls Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 W. Ranjan Singh 30,000 1 Chandra Sherkhar 30,000 2 Dr. P. Ravi Shankar 15,000 2 Dhaneswar Maida 15,000 Senior Recurve Men Senior Recurve Women Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 Tarundeep Rai 1,00,000 1 Deepika Kumari 1,00,000 2 Kapil 75,000 2 Laxmirani Majhi 75,000 3 Atanu Das 50,000 3 Madhu Vedwan 50,000 4 Vishwas 25,000 4 L. Bombayla Devi 25,000 Senior Compound Men Senior Compound Women Rank Name Prize Rank Name Prize 1 Rajat Chauhan 1,00,000 1 Trisha Deb 1,00,000 2 Abhishek Verma 75,000 2 Purvasha Shende 75,000 3 Y.