Sikkim to host National Veteran Table Tennis Championship
KN Rai
Gangtok: December 16, 2011
The Sikkim Veterans Table Tennis Association (SVTTA) will hold the ‘19th National Veterans Table Tennis Championship’ in the state on 20th to 24th February 2012. Around 800 players across the country will participate in the event which will be played at Gymnasium Hall, Paljor Stadium, Gangtok.
Addressing the press conference the General Secretary of SVTTA, Kuber Bhandari informed that it is a matter of great pride and also the highest responsibility to hold such a mega tournament. He credited peaceful environment, good governance and encouragement for games and sports by the state government beside the event being organized in the state.
The tournament will have participants from all the states who are of national and international repute from Kerala to Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat. The mega event shall have veterans’ participants of different age and 22 categories and eight categories for team championship.
The team championship will be played on league cum knock-out basis and individual events will be on knock-out basis and all matches will be played on TTFI rules and regulation.
The state has produced various personalities in sports till date, added the GS and SVTTA will promote the veterans as well as the youths in the right direction. The major setbacks in the way of the people of Sikkim has been the 18/9 episode, but the state will bounce back to normalcy added Bhandari. He appealed all Hoteliers, NGOs, Taxi Driver Association and Stake Holders for cooperation and collective effort to make the event a grand success and that each guest has a memorable stay in Sikkim. Similarly Chief Patron also the Political Secretary to CM K.N Rai wished best wishes to the association for organizing such a national level tournament for the first time in the state.
Many people are of the opinion that Sikkim is completely destroyed by the earthquake, tourist flows has been decreased but the event will be a good message across the country said Rai.
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sushil kumar jindal
best wishes and hope this tournament may come every year
sushil kumar jindal
BEST WISHES FOR THIS CHAMPION SHIP
Shankar Rao
Wishing a great success for the tourney.
Abbas Uddin Ahmed
Best wishes to all the players specially the organisers who had made it possible and also meet our friends wid whom we had played maybe 35 years back.I salute to SVTTA.
Avaneesh Krishnamoorthy
Hello,
My dad, B.U. Krishnamurthy was the national champion last year in the 70+ category. He was very enthusiastic about this event this year, and traveled all the way from karnataka to participate this year. However he lost to a guy who had basically fudged his credentials and hence could not reach the finals. The person was actually 68, and participated in the 70+ category. At the minimum my dad should have been given a fair chance to play with a re-match offered. the organizers did none of that. It’s sad that some individuals bring such disgrace to the country and the event organizers. I’ll use every opportunity to convery this message to the whole world.
Looking for some justice here!
iSikkim
Had we come to know about this sad thing, we would have at least done a story on it and forwarded your complaint to the higher authorities. We don’t promise anything by saying this but being media, we believ it’s a responsibility of ours to highlight such arbitrariness, at least in Sikkim.
Anyway, we wish your father continues his sporting spirit.
bhupal rai
It was a wonderful moments for every sports and games lovers to know about the national level TT tournament being held at Gangtok. But surprisingly, there were very little news about it in the local leading news papers… ( Just a few lines seen mentioning v.briefly )
I think the medias and the close associates need to work little more to propagate and to highlight the national events which was organised here at our place for the first time.
After all its a question and the future of our budding players who might one day keep our name high in the field of sports and games.
Take it easy…