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Abhey Chautala announces Rs 1 crore to Haryana gold medallist in

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Posted: Aug 04, 2008 at 0307 hrs IST

Chandigarh, August 03 Haryana Olympic Association president Khel Ratan Abhey Singh Chautala today announced a cash award of Rs one crore for any Haryana player winning gold medal in Beijing Olympics

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Speaking on the occasion of Youth Baton Relay at Dundahera on the Delhi-Haryana Border, Abhey Chautala said the Beijing Olympics silver medalist from Haryana would be given a cash award of Rs 50 lakh and bronze medalist would be richer by Rs 25 lakh.

Abhey Chautala, who is also president of the Indian Amateur Boxing Association, said that nine players out of a 56-member Indian contingent for Beijing Olympics, belonged to Haryana. He was confident that the Indian team would give their best performance. Chautala has very high hopes on boxers, with four of them hailing from Haryana.

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Indian Table Tennis Federation president Ajay Singh Chautala

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Olympic Association (HOA) President Abhey Singh Chautala and Indian Table Tennis Federation President Ajay Singh Chautala on Sunday condemned the Haryana Government’s move of appointing R.R.Jowel, Registrar, Cooperative Societies Haryana as the Administrator, Haryana Olympic Association under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.

In a statement issued here on Sunday night they asserted that the HOA was democratically elected and the Government’s decision was “unconstitutional and illegal.”Mr.Abhey Singh Chautala said that the Sirsa State Games to be held from October 2 to 4 would be held as per schedule.

He further said that the Government had no right to appoint an administrator as the HOA was not a government department but an independent body. The HOA, which was an IOA recognized Olympic Association,was organsing the state games as per the orders of the Court. A petition would be filed against the State Government under the Contempt of Court Act soon, he added.

Meanwhile, Mr.Jowel said that he had been appointed Administrator for six months to manage the affairs of the Association. He added that with his appointment both the parallel Haryana Olympic Associations had been scrapped till the time a new body is elected. Any sports events organised by these Olympic Associations would be entirely illegal, he added.

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 Rathee to take IOA to Court

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 01, 2010, 18:12

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Chandigarh: The tussle for control over the Haryana Olympic Association is all set to stretch longer with the faction led by P V Rathee on Tuesday threatening legal action against the IOA for giving recognition to the body headed by INLD MLA Abhay Singh Chautala.

"We will be moving Court against the IOA soon," Rathee, a senior IPS officer, said.

The Dispute and Affiliation Committee formed by the IOA had two days back ruled in favour of the HOA faction led by Chautala, terming them as the real group.

"The Committee has no legal sanctity. We have sought a copy of the verdict from them and as soon as we get it, we would be moving the Court. A (Panchkula) Court had earlier passed permanent injunction restraining them (Abhay faction) from using HOA banner or sending teams under it," Rathee said.

He claimed the HOA led by him was authorised to send teams for various events.

Rathee also said that the sports talent hunt scheme started by them to draw budding talent from around the state had attracted massive response.

"We want to make the whole system transparent. On June 23, the day when Olympic Day will be celebrated, we will be releasing scholarships for the selected talent," he said.

Meanwhile, Nafe Singh Rathi, President, Haryana State Athletics Association welcomed the decision of R K Anand, Chairman, IOA, Disputes and Affiliation Committee by recognising the Abhay Chautala headed faction as the "real HOA".

"HOA (led by Rathee) was illegally constituted," Nafi Singh claimed.

He alleged the state government was not cooperating and budding sportspersons of State were facing great difficulties.

"The Government stopped the grant?in?aid for State Sports Associations," he claimed.

The two factions have been at loggerheads since 2006 when after coming to power, the Congress government formed its own state Olympic Association, with Kurukshetra MP Navin Jindal, as president.

In September 2007, the B S Hooda government in Haryana appointed IAS officer R R Jowel as Administrator to look after the HOA and a year later P V Rathee was elected president.

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Haryana to compete in National Games: Abhey Singh Chautala

Haryana to compete in National Games: Abhey Singh Chautala

January 28, 2011 

RANCHI: Even before the start of the National Games boxing competition, a major row broke out at Jamshedpur on Thursday when the Vijender Singh, Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar walked out of the competition.

The trio was a victim of groupism in Haryana boxing. Only the boxers of the Abhay Singh Chautala group were allowed to take part while the trio was part of the Rathi faction.

IABF joint secretary Rakesh Thakran told The Hindu, “we told the three that we have the best boxers in their weight classes and if they were interested in participating, they should prove they are the best.''

On hearing this, the three boxers preferred to leave the arena with their coach rather than appear in the trials.— Special Correspondent

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Haryana government fails to promote sports: Chautala

Thursday, September 04, 2008 | 5:11:23 PM IST (+05:30 GMT)

Chandigarh, Sep 4 (IANS) In a scathing attack, Abhey Singh Chautala, president of the Indian Boxing Federation (IBF) and the Haryana Olympic Association, Thursday accused the Haryana government of doing nothing to promote sports in the state.

'For the last three and a half years, the present government has not done anything for the betterment of any sport, and whenever we tried to do this government has undone it,' Chautala told reporters.

'The government has talked about various sports policies and construction of new stadiums in the state but everything is only on paper,' he said.

Chautala particularly targeted Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, saying 'he has not done anything to uplift the stature of boxing'.

From India, Haryana contributed the highest number of players to the Beijing Olympics, he said.

Chautala said the Indian Boxing Federation had plans to poularise boxing on the lines of cricket in India. 'We will take this sport to the metro cities and conduct regular tournaments in big towns.'

Haryana Olympic Association criticize state govt for taking credit for boxer's performance in Olympics

Haryana Olympic Association (HOA) senior vice president & Haryana Handball Association (HHA) president, Mr Ashok Kumar Arora has criticised the government of Haryana for attempting to attain cheap publicity for the achievements of Haryana boxers...

Haryana Olympic Association (HOA) senior vice president & Haryana Handball Association (HHA) president, Mr Ashok Kumar Arora has criticised the government of Haryana for attempting to attain cheap publicity for the achievements of Haryana boxers. In a press statement issued here today, Mr Arora complimented the Haryanvi boxers for bringing good name to the state.

Arora said that Akhil Kumar may have lost boxing bout in Olympic Quarterfinal, but has won the hearts of the people. He said that the people of the country have high hopes from the other two Quarterfinalist boxers. He condemned the state government for neglecting the sports persons and not granting any grants to the concerned sports associations. He said that he is ashamed of chief minister Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda's conduct in the whole episode, who is now trying to garner cheap publicity.

HOA senior vice president said that Hooda government has not been impartial in treating sports in the state and the sportsperson's interests were neglected to settle score with HOA office bearers. He said that politics should not be mixed with the sports and governments should desist from interfering in to the sports and their management. He criticized the chief minister Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda for being bent upon ruining the games in Haryana. He said that chief minister's attitude has been undignified and chief minister even used police force to obstruct the sports functions of Haryana Olympic Associations.

HHA president Mr Arora said that all the credit for achievement of Haryanvi boxers goes to HOA & Indian Boxing Federation (IBF) president, Mr Abhey Singh Chautala as the Haryana Government had always put all sorts of obstacles and problems for the sports promotion still IBF & HOA worked overnight for manage proper training, preparation and also ensuring participation in various national & international championships. Had the government not put obstructions, then five or more boxers could have brought laurels to the state, he added.

Mr Arora said that the IBF arranged top sporting facilities and foreign exposure despite no support from Haryana Government. He disclosed that Indian boxers undertook trainings at Cuba, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Malaysia & Thailand, where the players were provided international trainers, Psychologists, Doctors and other related facilities. To provide the international exposure, Indian Boxing players were sent to participate in various international tournaments held at various countries including Russia, Poland, China, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, Qatar, Pakistan, Greece, United Kingdom, Korea, Philippines, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Taiwan, Germany.

Mr. Arora said that Hooda Government has not yet given any annual grant to the HOA since it's coming to power, which is given to promote the sports. The Haryana Government had not provided any sports grounds, technical officials, sports goods facilities, coaches etc to the sports associations and HOA for the Sirsa State games.

HOA senior vice president said that the state government is still maintaining its anti sports policies as in the just concluded 41st Senior Haryana State Boxing championship held at Wazirpur, Gurgaon from August 15 to August 17, no facilities including government sports ground, medical facilities or security was provided, so the tournament was forced to be organised in a private school ground. He said that not a single coach out of total 18 coaches was provided in the state boxing championships despite repeated requests. State boxing champions and former champions, serving in government departments like police were not allowed to participate.

HHA president said that state sports department also declined the state boxing federation request for coaching camp for 55th National Boxing Championship to be held at Bhatinda from 6 to 12 September. Haryana Boxing federation was intimated the government decision vide letter no. 2008-25703 dated 6 August, he further added.

Mr Arora said that despite all the government apathy, IBF has left no stone unturned and in 2006, World Boxing Championship was organised at New Delhi, where Indian women Boxing team emerged champions.

Mr Abhey Chautala has shown rare and impeccable commitment to the development and promotion of sports in general and Boxing in particular, Mr Arora said. HOA is perhaps the only state Olympic Association of the country, which has announced that it would award the Olympic Gold, Silver & Bronze medal winners with cash prize of Rs 1 Crore, 50 Lakh & 25 Lakh.

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Chandigarh | March 14, 2007 10:50:08 AM IST
 

Haryana Olympic Association (HOA) has demanded enhancement of prize money for the medal winners at National Games.

Talking to media persons here today, HOA president Abhey Singh Chautala asked the state government to increase the cash award to the National Games Gold, Silver and Bronze medal winner players to Rs 5 lakh, 3 lakh and 2 lakh respectively.

He said he had already written a letter to the government on this issue to bring it at par with Sikkim government.

He hailed the Haryana contingent which secured fifth place by winning 30 gold, 22 silver and 28 bronze medals in the National Games held at Guwahati recently.

Mr Chautala said politics should not be mixed with the sports and governments should desist from interfering into the sports bodies and their management.

Taking a dig at Congress MP Navin Jindal who had been claiming to be the real chief of HOA, Mr Chautala said the Haryana contingent included even the ''so-called office bearers of some self-styled sports organisations'' and the matter had been finally settled with Mr Jindal participating as a player in the Shooting game under the banner of the ''legitimate'' HOA.

Mr Jindal had won silver and bronze medals in team events of Shooting championship.

Mr Chautala called upon Mr Jindal and his team to cooperate with the HOA in uplifting the standard of the games and players.

The government should immediately hand over the HOA office to the ''real office bearers'' of HOA.

The HOA alleged that the Haryana Government did not extend its co-operation, financial assistance and technical help to the HOA for these games.

The Haryana government neither provided any training facilities nor coaches and umpires for these games, he alleged.

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Abhey: State govt ignoring players
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, February 26
Notwithstanding the political fight between Abhey Singh Chautala group and Kurukhetra MP Naveen Jindal group for taking over the control of Haryana Olympic Association (HOA), the Haryana sportspersons brought home the best-ever medal haul from the 33rd National Games held at Guwahati from February 9 to 18.

The performance of these players invite significance as the state sports is suffering a big blow because of controversy over the control of the HOA.

The Chautala-led HOA is affiliated to the Indian Olympic Association under whose banner the state contingent participated in the National Games. But the state government supports the faction led by Jindal.

It was the prime reason that the state government refrained from funding the contingent, which represented the state in National Games under Chautala banner. But the worst sufferers are the sportspersons whose achievements are hardly being recognised by the state government. They are being deprived of their due honour.

As per the state government’s sports policy, cash prizes of Rs 50,000, Rs 31000 and Rs 21,000 are awarded to gold, silver and bronze medallists of National Games.

“But the state government has not even honoured the medal winners of Doha Asian Games yet, who brought laurels to the country in general and state in particular. It is a matter of great concern,” rued Chautala.

Criticising the dictatorial attitude of the state government, Chautala said the government neither provided any training nor any coaches or umpires for these games. “In spite of my repeated reminders to the Chief Minister, no grant was released for the games,” he added.

“The participation of Mr Navin Jindal in shooting event under the ‘legitimate’ banner is the testimony to the fact that the parallel body floated by him lose all significance,” said Chautala.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070227/sports.htm#8

2007 National Games of India

The 2007 National Games, also known as the 33rd National Games of India, was held from 9 February 2007 to 18 February 2007 in Guwahati, Assam, India.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared the 33rd National Games open here Friday evening amid clamorous cheering from the 30,000-strong crowd at the Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium.

Medal table

Closing ceremony

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