{"id":5585,"date":"2016-08-30T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T11:55:58","slug":"indian-captain-sreejeshs-home-state-kerala-yet-to-recognise-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=5585","title":{"rendered":"Indian captain Sreejesh’s home state Kerala yet to recognise hockey!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thiruvananthapuram :<\/p>\n

It may sound incredible, but is a hard fact. Hockey is not a recognised sport in the home state of P R Sreejesh – captain of Indian hockey team. Nor are Olympic events like golf and rugby. As India is busy assessing its failure at the Rio Olympics yet again, emerges this case of mismanagement and politicking.<\/p>\n

Without the Kerala State Sports Council\u2019s (KSSC)recognition, these sports miss out on initiatives and financial assistance from the state government to develop the sport. The impact on trainees is more profound as they are denied benefits like grace marks, quota admissions.<\/p>\n

While sports like hockey remain unrecognised, there are dubious inclusions like atiya patiya, tennikoit, arm wrestling, roller skating, bodybuilding, kalarippayattu and even tug of war in the 39-event list\u00a0 Despite being recognised as the official body by Hockey India in 2014 and fielding a state team at the 35th National Games 2015 and national championships ever since, Kerala Hockey, earlier this year, were denied recognition by the Council ciitng legal tangles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been 3-4 associations who lay claim to the sport in Kerala. This has been the bane of the sport in the state. Let them solve their differences first because it is the players who suffer ultimately,\u201d Sreejesh told Express. \u201cThese associations should first set their house in order. Or the Council should sit with Hockey India and form a new state body to govern the sport in Kerala,\u201d the goalkeeper said.<\/p>\n

According to officials, Kerala Hockey does not have any pending cases in court. \u201cWe have spent around Rs 13 lakhs to send state teams for Nat\u2019l championships without government aid,\u201d said Afsar S Ahammed, secretary of Kerala Hockey. \u201cSome associations have been affiliated by the Council thanks to backdoor entries while deserving association like ours are often ignored,\u201d alleged Afsar.<\/p>\n

T P Dasan, the new president of Kerala Sports Council approves. \u201cDuring tenure of the previous administration, there were some undeserving associations who were selected and we had expressed our displeasure when sports like arm wrestling were recognised without any merit,\u201d said Dasan. Kerala women\u2019s rugby team had won bronze at the National Games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThough the acceptance of rugby has increased, we are yet to be recognised despite continuous efforts. I hope the new administration will look into this,\u201d said coach Mahesh Kumar, also secretary of Kerala State Rugby Association.<\/p>\n

The rugby body was founded in 2002, but Dasan said its application was being processed. \u201cThey had only completed the paperwork recently and it is on our table now. We will definitely consider it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Golf is still in a nascent stage in Kerala despite making its debut in Olympic stage at Rio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t received an application for golf but all associations have to conduct district and state championships for three years and have a presence in at least eight districts to be eligible for recognition,\u201d said Dasan.<\/p>\n

Classification<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said the Council was planning to classify the recognised sports into low, medium and high priority categories to cater to their demands efficiently. \u201cWe plan to take up these issues during the Council\u2019s administrative board meeting on August 31,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com \/ The New Indian Express \/ Home> Sport \/ by Adwaidh Rajan \/ August 30th, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thiruvananthapuram : It may sound incredible, but is a hard fact. Hockey is not a recognised sport in the home state of P R Sreejesh – captain of Indian hockey team. Nor are Olympic events like golf and rugby. As India is busy assessing its failure at the Rio Olympics yet again, emerges this case … Continue reading Indian captain Sreejesh’s home state Kerala yet to recognise hockey!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}