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  Tata to open sports feeder centre at Duburi
07 Mar 2008
 

Tata Steel is gearing up to open a sports feeder centre (SFC) shortly at Duburi in Jajpur district with an aim to train budding talents in football and archery. ``The centre will be launched on April 14,`` announced Corporate Communications chief Mohit Das at a media conference here on Friday. He stated that the centre would act a regular base to supply promising talents to the Jamshedpur-based Tata Football Academy (TFA) and Tata Archery Academy (TAA) for higher training. ``The SFC will have necessary infrastructure to provide training and coaching facilities to around 200 boys and girls at a time in these two games. These talents will be admitted in batches and each batch will stay there for a period of about two months,`` explained Das.

 

Trainees for the centre will be selected through six talent scouting camps to be held at Bhubaneswar (March 8 and 9), Duburi (March 10 and 11), Sukinda (March 12), Bamnipal (March 13), Keonjhar (March 14) and Joda (March 16). TFA coach Kausar Ahmad and TAA coach Chinmayee Mohanty will supervise the camps and evaluate the talent of the campers as well. Both the coaches were of the opinion that the SFC would be a boon for hidden talents of the State to achieve excellence in football and archery. Around 200 under-15 boys and girls from Cuttack, Bhubaneswar, Puri and Khurda are expected to join the first talent-hunt camp, srting here on Saturday. Local football club, Unit-VI Athletic Association is helping Tata Steel for the smooth conduct of the camp.

  ``Twenty boys in football and equal number of talents in archery, including five girls, would be picked up from each of the six camps for induction in the feeder centre,`` stated Das. He also disclosed that Tata Steel would spend around Rs 30 to 35 lakhs every year to meet the running expenses of the centre. Describing Tata Steel`s contribution for promotion of sports in the State, Das said: ``The company has been organising talent-hunt camps, rural sports meets and sponsoring major football tournament at many places for the past four years. ``Seikh Mustakin, who was spotted from one of these camps a couple of years ago, is now playing matches regularly for the senior TFA side. The feeder centre is sure to deliver many more Mustakins in the future,`` he signed off.
   
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