Raipur. West Zone Junior National Girls and Boys Hockey Championship is being organized in Rajnandgaon from 19th to 26th March. In the said championship, teams from West Zone from 7 states Rajasthan, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Damandiv (Nagar Haveli) will participate. More than 300 boys and girls hockey players, judges, coach managers, selectors etc. will participate in the competition from the teams of these states. Hockey India is organizing this type of hockey competition for the first time to promote hockey from the grassroots.
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In a release, Chhattisgarh Hockey President Firoz Ansari said that Hockey India and Chhattisgarh Hockey have organized Junior Boys/Girls National Hockey Championship twice in 2011 and 2016 in Rajnandgaon (Raipur) and Sub-Junior National Boys Hockey Championship in 2016 (Raipur). After being organized in 2019 (Raipur and Bilaspur), now Hockey India and Chhattisgarh Hockey will organize the West Zone National Junior Hockey Championship for both boys and girls simultaneously from 19 to 26 March 2023 in Rajnandgaon, a city called the nursery of hockey. is being organized.
These organizations engaged in preparations
Chhattisgarh Hockey General Secretary Manish Srivastava said that the preparation for all the works related to this competition in Rajnandgaon is being done jointly by Sports and Youth Welfare Department, District Administration, Hockey Chhattisgarh, District Hockey Association. Preparation of further action plan is being done in full swing after observing all the necessary points for the event ranging from accommodation arrangements, food places, transport etc. of the players. Mr. Srivastava said that for the first time from this year, Hockey India has divided the Junior and Sub-Junior National Championships into four zones to promote hockey from the grass root level.
This format has been created
Different competitions will be organized among the states falling in the four zones and a team will be formed by selecting the best players from the teams participating in these competitions. This selected team will participate in the Inter Zone Competition. Apart from 1=1 team from all zones, 2 teams from SAI and 2 teams selected from different hockey academies of the country will participate in the inter zone competition. Players for the future Indian junior hockey team will be selected from the competition.
