Bihar contingent for 34th National Games leaves Patna

Patna, February 12, 201: Bihar contingent for the 34th National Games that began in Ranchi on Saturday left Patna on February 10 to participate in the mega show.

Bihar Olympic Association (BOA) secretary Md Mushtaque Ahmad said Bihar would took part in the 12 events out 33.

Bihar Art, Culture and Youth Affairs Minister Sukhda Pandey flagged off the team.

Athletics (men): Amit Kr Singh, Sachin Kumar, Prem Prakesh Gupta, Dilip Kumar Tiwari, Sadashiv Pandey, Kundan Kumar, Sumit Kumar, Mukesh Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Md Sazid Alam, Chunmun Kumar, Satish Kumar, Sugrib Kumar, Vim Bahadur Limbu, Sanjay Roy, Shambhu Nath Shukla, Harun Ansari, Dharmendra Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Shakti Kumar, Amit Mazumdar, Virbahadur Singh, Kushal Kumar, Shamsher Khan, Ranjit Ranjan Ojha, Izahar Khan, Sumas Tohidd (Coach), Md Irshad Ahmad (coach), Sanjay Kumar Singh (manager).

Women: Sunanda Sarkar, Sharmila Baig, Veena Kumari, Khushaboo Kumari, Vandana Kumari, Phultushi Kumari, Archana Bara, Jyoti Sosan Nayar, Jaswant Kumar Singh (coach), Shatrughan Prasad (coach), Jainandra Singh (manager)

Boxing (men): Md Gulam Goush, Anil Kumar, Biswajeet Kumar (coach) and Rajesh Ashthana (manager).

Women: Mamta, Dipika Tiwari, Goutam Kumar Mandal (coach) and Raj Kumar Ranjan (manager).

Gymnastics (men): Surendra Kumar Vishwakarma, Arun Kumar Tripathi, Raj Kumar (coach), Nilesh Kumar Mandal (manager).

Karate (men): Sagar Kumar Lee, Praveen Kumar, Pankaj Kambali (coach), Vyomkesh (manager)

Squash (men): Aditya Raj, Prabhajeet Singh, Shivam Kant, Md Jahid Raja (coach), Anupriya (manager).

Women: Soni Kumari, Jyoti Singh, Punam Kumari, Abhay Kumar (coach), Anupriya (manager).

Swimming (men): Krishna Kumar Jha, Kanchan Kumar, Varun Kumar, Ravindra Rajbhar, Ritesh Kumar, Sagar Kumar, Sarjeet Gosh, Manoj Kumar Jha (coach), Krishna Mohan Singh (manager).

Women: Baby Kumari, Neha Singh, Urvigata Kriti, Payal Pandit, Kumud Verma (coach), Dr Sayeed Shan Haider (manager).

Shooting (men): Mritunjay Singh, Chandrashekhar Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Lav Prakash Sharma, Naresh Kumar, Neeraj Kumar, Kumar Neeraj, Arun Sharma, Kaushal Nougoria (coach) and Jitendra Lal (manager).

Shooting (women): Shreyashi, Meera Kumari, Kaushal Nogoria (coach), Jitendra Lal (manager).

Lawnball (men): Mahip Tirki, Prince Kumar Mahato, Lalit Singh, Chakatu Orach, Alok Larka (coach) and Sanjiv Kumar Verma (manager).

Women: Manisha Shrivastava, Sarita Kumari, Kanchan Kachhap, Bindu Kumari, Sunita (coach) and Savita Kumari (manager).

Triathlon (men): Lalmuni Dubey, Roshan Kumar, Jitendra Kumar, Mukesh Dubey (coach) and Akhilesh Nath Tiwari (manager)

Weightlifting (women): A Ganeshwari Devi, Deyvesh Chandra Roy (coach) and Abhay Prakash (manager)

Wrestling: Bajarangi Yadav, Harivilash Yadav (coach) and Kashim Ahmad (manager).

Photo: Bihar Sports Minister Sukhda Pandey flags off State National Games team in Patna on February 10, 2011.

Photo: Aftab Alam Siddiqui

Mehta is new BOA president

Patna, October 20
A sea change has been witnessed in the annual quadrennial general meeting of the Bihar Olympic Association as all the veteran office-bearers kept themselves off from seeking re-election. Instead they gave the responsibility to relatively younger lot to keep BOA flag flying. The meeting was held in Muzaffarpur.

Prasenjit Mehta of Muzaffarpur was elected unopposed the new president of BOA. Mehta replaced Arjun Bikram Shah, who, however, was named life president of the BOA. Md Mushtaque Ahmad of Patna was unanimously elected the new secretary while Manoj Kumar Sharma of Begusarai was elected the treasurer. Mushtaque was elected executive committee member of the Indian Olympic Association recently.

Mushtaque replaced S Ejaz Hussain, who, along with Dr Prem Kumar and Dr Akhauri Bhuvaneshwar Prasad, was named life patrons of the association. Arjun Bikram Shah presided over the meeting. Secretary General of the Jharkhand Olympic Association and executive member of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), S Matloob attended the meeting as official observer of the IOA. Dr Prem Kumar proposed a vote of thanks.